Record

RefNoRR/8/338
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The wave of translation and the work it does as the carrier wave of sound' by John Scott Russell
Date4 June 1881
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The ideas in the paper are mistaken.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1881]
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1881.0035 Vol.32 1881
RelatedRecordRR/8/339
AP/61/5
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh1842 - 1919
NA5548Russell; John Scott (1808 - 1882)1808 - 1882
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