| RefNo | RR/8/73 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric current produced on certain wires by stretching' by Herbert Tomlinson |
| Date | 30 April 1877 |
| Description | Encloses letter from James Clerk Maxwell [RR/8/72] and the associated reports [RR/8/70 and RR/8/71]. Agrees that publication in the Proceedings is satisfactory.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1878] |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1877.0061 Vol.26 1878 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/8/70 |
| RR/8/71 |
| RR/8/72 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |
| NA6980 | Tomlinson; Herbert (1846 - 1931) | 1846 - 1931 |