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RefNoRR/9/183
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels' by Osborne Reynolds
Date30 March 1883
DescriptionRecommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.It 'records some well contrived experiments on a subject which has long needed investigations'. The results are 'important'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1883].
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1883.0029
RelatedRecordRR/9/184
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6993Reynolds; Osborne (1842 - 1912)1842 - 1912
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh1842 - 1919
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