| RefNo | MM/16/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Dr Hermann Sprengel to Lord Rayleigh |
| Date | 3 June 1892 |
| Description | On receipt of Rayleigh's letter on the topic of submitting to the Royal Society any paper by Sir Frederick Abel in which Sprengel thinks injustice has been done to him.
The issue in dispute was the credit of the discovery of the method of exploding wet gunpowder through cumulative detonation. |
| Extent | 2 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6484 | Sprengel; Hermann Johann Phillipp (1834 - 1906); chemist | 1834 - 1906 |
| NA6090 | Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist | 1842 - 1919 |
| NA3596 | Abel; Sir; Frederick Augustus (1827 - 1902); chemist and explosives expert | 1827 - 1902 |