Extract of a letter, 'About a new materiall for handguns and pistolls' from unknown author to [Henry] Oldenburg
Reference number: CLP/3i/7
Date: 17 September 1662
Description
The author describes an invention by a goldsmith called Felix Werder of a way of making handguns and pistols from a new material called orichalcum.
Subject: Industry / Weaponry
Written by Werder in Zurich [Switzerland]. Read to the Royal Society on 8 October 1662.
- Reference number
- CLP/3i/7
- Earliest possible date
- 17 September 1662
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Extract of a letter, 'About a new materiall for handguns and pistolls' from unknown author to [Henry] Oldenburg, 17 September 1662, CLP/3i/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_7/extract-of-a-letter-about-a-new-materiall-for-handguns-and-pistolls-from-unknown-author-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 02 December 2024
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Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
Reference number: CLP/3i
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Henry Oldenburg
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