Paper, 'A triall of a chariot' by Colonel [Thomas] Blount
Reference number: CLP/3i/20
Date: 08 April 1665
Description
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, 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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Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
Reference number: CLP/3i
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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