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RefNoRR/1/233
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on two papers 'On a peculiar source of deterioration of the magnetic powers of steel bars' by William Sturgeon and 'On the supposed properties of the electric and magnetic fluids' by William Ford Stevenson
Date9 August 1845
DescriptionBoth papers not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. Stevenson's paper is 'utterly worthless' and Sturgeon's is 'not sufficiently new or important'.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

['On a peculiar source of deterioration of the magnetic powers of steel bars' published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1843].
['On the supposed properties of the electric and magnetic fluids' published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1843].
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0022
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0056
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7559Wheatstone; Sir; Charles (1802 - 1875); physicist1802 - 1875
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