Record

RefNoRR/7/8
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'On the cause and theoretic value of the resistance of flexure in beams' by William Henry Barlow
Date8 June 1870
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author is 'ignorant' of the terms and principles of mathematical theory of elasticity. It would not be 'proper' to publish the paper either in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1869].
Extent8p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1869.0076
RelatedRecordRR/7/9
AP/52/1
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
NA7672Barlow; William Henry (1812 - 1902)1812 - 1902
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