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De la Chaumette shares six of his inventions: one concerning a bomb, an iron rod, a lock which is put into the wood of a door, a padlock that appears by combining numbers on the moveable hoops, a tin cartridge for charging a firelock and a stirrup to prevent falling from a horse.

Subject: Engineering

Read to the Royal Society on 9 May 1734

Reference number
CLP/3ii/35
Earliest possible date
09 May 1734
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Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'On six inventions' by Isaac de la Chaumette, 09 May 1734, CLP/3ii/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3ii_35/paper-on-six-inventions-by-isaac-de-la-chaumette, accessed on 16 May 2026

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