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Experiment to determine the elasticity and force of rebound on swinging steel balls, determined by the decrease in the quantity of motion. Desaguliers repeats the experiment with glass balls.

Subject: Physics

Read to the Royal Society on 27 May 1714

Reference number
CLP/18ii/4
Earliest possible date
20 May 1714
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Theophilus Desaguliers

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John Theophilus Desaguliers, Paper, 'An experiment on steel balls made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers, 20 May 1714, CLP/18ii/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18ii_4/paper-an-experiment-on-steel-balls-made-before-the-royal-society-by-j-t-john-theophilus-desaguliers, accessed on 05 December 2024

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