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RefNoMC/12/139
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Thomson, The University, Glasgow, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]
CreatorThomson; William (1824-1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; British physicist
Date11 January 1881
DescriptionEnclosing a paper [by James Ewing] on seismographs and its best possible construction.

[For paper, see related material.]
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1880.0058
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)1819 - 1903
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