1. So much so that one physicist, writing in the 1970s about developments in the 1930s, goes out of his way to point out that ‘My book on Electrical Counting even includes a mention of the famous “sealing wax.” ’, See W. B. Lewis, ‘Early Detectors and Counters’, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Vol. 162 (1979) pp. 9–14
2. W. B. Lewis, Electrical Counting (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1942) p. 7.
3. D. J. de Solla Price, ‘Of Sealing Wax and String’, Natural History, vol. 93 (1984) pp. 49–57
4. J. A. Crowther, ‘Research Work in the Cavendish Laboratory in 1900–1918’, Supplement to Nature, vol. 118 (1926) pp. 58–60
5. In J. Huxley, Scientific Research and Social Needs (London: Watts & Co. 1934) p. 209.