| Reference number | MS/928/2/169 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to Charles Vernon Boys |
| Date | 27 December 1897 |
| Description | Boys's letter reached him after he had received the enclosure on Christmas Day and the explanation has cleared up things that had puzzled Stokes about the explosion photograph.. He should have guessed that the explosion was made by electricity. Discusses what the photograph shows and the resulting behaviour of gases. What he took to be rapidly moving stones may have been the smoke trails left by projected explosive. |
| Extent | 1p. |
| Format | Typescript |
| Physical description | On paper |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |