Reference number | MS/928/2/158 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys |
Date | 2 December 1890 |
Description | On travelling back to Cambridge by train, he thought about the spectra shown by Boys. He has little doubt that the transverse bands in the spectrum of a violently tapering quartz fibre are caused by intereference between diffracted and transmitted light. The other bands seen without a slit belong to the light source and Stokes suggests means of exploring this, notably by substituting the electric light with sunlight. |
Extent | 2p. |
Format | Typescript |
Physical description | On paper |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903) | 1819 - 1903 |