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Reference numberEC/1928/04
Previous numbersCert XIV, 43; A01538
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TitleCook, Stanley Smith: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse
CitationSince 1906, controlling calculation steam turbines for Parsons' Marine Steam Turbine Co, and licences all principal countries. On Sub-Committee of BIR, calculated pressures attained by collapsing water cavities, results independently confirmed by Lord Rayleigh (see Proc Roy Soc). Calculated temperatures reached by compression of flame (see paper Royal Society, by Sir Charles Parsons, 1920). Joint author of the following papers: - 'Compressibility' (Proc Roy Soc); 'Erosion of Propellers' (Inst Naval Arch, 1919); 'Mechanical Double Reduction Gears, investigating Torsional Vibration (ibid, 1921); 'Mechanical Gearing, investigating Oil-quenched Steel Pinions' (ibid, 1923). Roy Soc Arts, Howard Lectures, 1923.
ProposersCharles A Parsons; Dugald Clerk; J A Ewing; W E Dalby; H C H Carpenter; A A C Swinton; R Threlfall
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Cook, Stanley Smith: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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