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So Mr. A. B. Basset (p. 101) interdicts all such expressions as Armstrong guns, Whitworth lathes, Martini rifles, Boxer cartridges, Whitehead torpedoes, Corliss engines, Siemens steel, Thomson galvanometers, Peltier effect, Röntgen rays, hundreds of which are in common use among engineers, physicists, and mathematicians, to say nothing of the educated general public His task is only comparable with the historic one which Mrs. Partington set herself with respect to the Atlantic.

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GRAY, A. Bessel Functions. Nature 60, 149–150 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060149e0

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