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Reference numberRR/48/1
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'On the effect of the temperature of liquid hydrogen (-252.8° C.) On the tensile properties of forty-one specimens of metals comprising (a) pure iron 99.85%; (b) four carbon steels; (c) thirty alloy steels; (d) copper and nickel; (e) four non-ferrous alloy' by W J De Haas and Robert Abbott Hadfield
Date[June 1933]
DescriptionSectional Committee: Engineering Sciences

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The results are valuable, but presented in a repetitious manner. Suggests re-organising the tables. Provides some points of criticism.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 15 June 1933.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type D)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rsta.1934.0009 Vol.232 1933
Related records in the catalogueRR/48/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA5984Desch; Cecil Henry (1874 - 1958)1874 - 1958
NA8230Hadfield; Sir; Robert Abbott (1858 - 1940); metallurgist1858 - 1940
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