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Reference numberRR/20/69
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives or by the impact of bullets' by Bertram Hopkinson
Date4 November 1913
DescriptionSectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The experimental method is 'most ingenious'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1914].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 November 1913.
Extent3p
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type C) and typed letter on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1914.0008
Related records in the catalogueRR/20/68
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8267Petavel; Sir; Joseph Ernest (1873 - 1936); engineer and physicist1873 - 1936
NA7297Hopkinson; Bertram (1874 - 1918)1874 - 1918
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