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Paper, 'An account of the application of the gas from coal to economical purposes' by William Murdoch

Reference number: PT/2/10

Date: 1808

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the application of the gas from coal to economical purposes'.

Communicated by Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks. Read 25 February 1808.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/2/10
Earliest possible date
1808
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Ink on paper
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12 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

William Murdoch

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William Murdoch, Paper, 'An account of the application of the gas from coal to economical purposes' by William Murdoch, 1808, PT/2/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_2_10/paper-an-account-of-the-application-of-the-gas-from-coal-to-economical-purposes-by-william-murdoch, accessed on 17 May 2025

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