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RefNoRR/11/261
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'The value of the mechanical equivalent of heat, deduced from some experiments performed with the view of establishing the relation between the electrical and mechanical units; together with an investigation into the capacity for heat of water at different temperatures' by Ernest Howard Griffiths
Date31 January 1893
DescriptionRecommended for publication. The investigation is carried out with 'remarkable skill and perseverance'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1893].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rsta.1893.0006
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
NA5101Griffiths; Ernest Howard (1851 - 1932)1851 - 1932
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