| Reference number | RR/8/71 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric current produced on certain wires by stretching' by Herbert Tomlinson |
| Date | nd [1877] |
| Description | Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The author is the first to tackle the subject since the referee's own researches, which should be referred to in the current paper. Suggests the author continue his investigations, which have begun with much promise.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1878] |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1877.0061 Vol.26 1878 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/8/70 |
| RR/8/72 |
| RR/8/73 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |
| NA6980 | Tomlinson; Herbert (1846 - 1931) | 1846 - 1931 |