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MR, H. TOMLINSON ON THE INFLUENCE OF STRESS 
with nickel, however, the alteration of resistance is so very much larger in proportion 
to increase of length than is the case with the other metals, that the abscissas are 
represented on a scale of ‘05 percentage of alteration to the millimetre, and the 
ordinates on a scale of ’0625 percentage alteration to the millimetre. 
Table XV.—Curves showing the permanent alteration of specific resistance pro¬ 
duced by permanent longitudinal extension, 
