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THE foreword by Lady Parsons gives the raison d'être of this book; she did not live to see its publication. It is issued with “the hope of helping the interested reader to appreciate the genius, the perseverance and the indomitable courage of Sir Charles,” she writes, and this it does completely; while the personal reminiscences of Lord Rayleigh give us a charming picture of a great inventor from many points of view. An appendix contains a complete list of Sir Charles's published papers from 1885 onwards, and in the volume are printed a number of these sufficient to illustrate the range of his activities and the development of his ideas.
Scientific Papers and Addresses of the Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons, O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S.
Hon. G. L. Parsons. With a Memoir by Lord Rayleigh, with Appendices. Pp. xxviii + 260 + 8 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934.) 15s. net.
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G., R. Sir Charles Parsons . Nature 135, 772–774 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135772a0
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