| RefNo | MC/12/313 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Colonel V D [Vivian Dering] Majendie, HM Chief Inspector of Explosives, Home Office, to Professor G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London |
| Creator | Majendie; Colonel Sir; Vivian Dering (1836-1898); British engineer |
| Date | 13 March 1883 |
| Description | Requesting a copy of a report of a Royal Society Committee, who looked into the potential electrical cause of an explosion at Waltham Abbey in 1801. Majendie asks whether new advances in electricity can shed new light on the Society's findings from 82 years ago.
[For reply, see related record.] |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/12/315 |
| MS/427/268 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |