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Reference numberRR/9/406
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Osborne Reynolds, on a paper 'The influence of stress and strain on the physical properties of matter. Part I. Elasticity—continued. The internal friction of metals' by Herbert Tomlinson
Date17 March 1886
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as 'the wire-drawing renders the wire unfit to withstand torsional strain'. This is 'well known to metal workers but apparently unknown' to the author. There are come points of interest in the paper so the experimental results could be published in Proceedings.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1886].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionReport on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1886.0028
Related records in the catalogueRR/9/405
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6993Reynolds; Osborne (1842 - 1912)1842 - 1912
NA6980Tomlinson; Herbert (1846 - 1931)1846 - 1931
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