| Reference number | RR/9/184 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes 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 |
| Date | 19 April 1883 |
| Description | Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It is 'valuable', as 'he shows for the first time that the distinction between regular and eddying motion depends on a relation between the dimensions of space and velocity'.
Subject: Physics
[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1883]. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Typescript |
| Physical description | Report on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1883.0029 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/9/183 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903) | 1819 - 1903 |
| NA6993 | Reynolds; Osborne (1842 - 1912) | 1842 - 1912 |