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RefNoRR/8/73
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric current produced on certain wires by stretching' by Herbert Tomlinson
Date30 April 1877
DescriptionEncloses letter from James Clerk Maxwell [RR/8/72] and the associated reports [RR/8/70 and RR/8/71]. Agrees that publication in the Proceedings is satisfactory.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1878]
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1877.0061 Vol.26 1878
RelatedRecordRR/8/70
RR/8/71
RR/8/72
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)1819 - 1903
NA6980Tomlinson; Herbert (1846 - 1931)1846 - 1931
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