Paper, 'A method proposed for regulating or equalizing motion without a spring' by W H
Reference number: CLP/3ii/11
Date: 14 December 1714
Description
This paper, intended to have been laid before the Honorable Commission for the Longitude, describes a method of regulating motion of a wheel using weights. Includes six figures on the first page of the manuscript.
Subject: Engineering
Written at Weymouth [Dorset, England].
- Reference number
- CLP/3ii/11
- Earliest possible date
- 14 December 1714
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'A method proposed for regulating or equalizing motion without a spring' by W H, 14 December 1714, CLP/3ii/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3ii_11/paper-a-method-proposed-for-regulating-or-equalizing-motion-without-a-spring-by-w-h, accessed on 09 March 2026
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