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Blount records the results of various experiments in chariot construction, tested by loading the chariot with musket bullets and recording the number of bullets that caused the chariot to break in each scenario.

Subject: Transportation

Read to the Royal Society on 12 April 1665.

Reference number
CLP/3i/20
Earliest possible date
08 April 1665
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Blount

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Thomas Blount, Paper, 'A triall of a chariot' by Colonel [Thomas] Blount, 08 April 1665, CLP/3i/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_20/paper-a-triall-of-a-chariot-by-colonel-thomas-blount, accessed on 18 July 2026

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