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RefNoPP/3/30
Previous numbersPP/35/31
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On curves circumscribing rotating polygons with reference to the shape of drilled holes' by A [Arnulph] Mallock
Date1883
DescriptionMallock writes: 'It is well known that drills and other tools of the same class which are guided by their cutting edges tend to, or at any rate can produce holes which are not circular in section, and further, that if the tool have n equidistant edges, the hole which it produces, if not circular in section, will have n+1 sides or similar arcs,* but the exact shape of these holes and the limits to their possible departure from circularity have not as far as I am aware been hitherto examined.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Engineering

Received 11 June 1883. Read 21 June 1883. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt].

A version of this paper was published in volume 35 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On curves circumscribing rotating polygons with reference to the shape of drilled holes'.
Extent12p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1883.0057
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1356Mallock; Henry Reginald Arnulph (1851 - 1933)1851 - 1933
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh1842 - 1919
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