| RefNo | MS/928/2/180 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Postcard from Peter Guthrie Tait, to Charles Vernon Boys, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London |
| Creator | Tait; Peter Guthrie (1831-1901); British physicist and mathematician |
| Recipient | Boys; Sir Charles Vernon (1855-1944); British physicist and inventor |
| Date | 28 July 1893 |
| Description | Thanks Boys for his letter and he will see from Tait's paper in press that Tait has made a golf ball travel 30 yards from a bow, with 8 feet droop in that distance when it had no rotation. He is starting off to St Andrews with a specially devised and adaptable new golf club which will mean that 'Every man [is] his own Caddie'.
With a postscript question: 'Why does a top, when driven on, come back for another blow, even when its axis is vertical'. |
| Extent | 2p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | On card |
| AccessStatus | Open |