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Paper, 'Description and manner of using an instrument for measuring the degrees of the expansion of metalls by heat' by John Ellicot

Reference number: CLP/3ii/39

Date: 1736

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Ellicot, a watchmaker, describes his pyrometer. This is an early draft of the paper. A later draft with emendations is found at CLP/3ii/40.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The description and manner of using an instrument for measuring the degrees of the expansion of metals by heat'

Read to the Royal Society on 8 April 1736

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CLP/3ii/39
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1736
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Ellicott

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John Ellicott, Paper, 'Description and manner of using an instrument for measuring the degrees of the expansion of metalls by heat' by John Ellicot, 1736, CLP/3ii/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3ii_39/paper-description-and-manner-of-using-an-instrument-for-measuring-the-degrees-of-the-expansion-of-metalls-by-heat-by-john-ellicot, accessed on 15 April 2026

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