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Reference numberRR/9/183
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels' by Osborne Reynolds
Date30 March 1883
DescriptionRecommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.It 'records some well contrived experiments on a subject which has long needed investigations'. The results are 'important'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1883].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionLetter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1883.0029
Related records in the catalogueRR/9/184
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6993Reynolds; Osborne (1842 - 1912)1842 - 1912
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist1842 - 1919
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