Record

RefNoRR/8/339
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The wave of translation and the work it does as the carrier wave of sound' by John Scott Russell
Date19 July 1881
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The author rejects the established theory of sound, instead using his own mistaken ideas and comes to erroneous conclusions.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1881]
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1881.0035 Vol.32 1881
RelatedRecordRR/8/338
AP/61/5
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)1819 - 1903
NA5548Russell; John Scott (1808 - 1882)1808 - 1882
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