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Paper, 'An account of the manner of bending planks in His Majesty's yards at Depthford [Deptford, London] by a sand-heat; invented by Captain Cumberland' by Robert Cay

Reference number: CLP/7ii/2

Date: 29 March 1722

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Cay provides details about a method used in shipbuilding. Figure and explanation of figure attached.

Subject: Shipbuilding

Read to the Royal Society on 29 March 1722

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the manner of bending planks in His Majesty's Yards at Deptford, by a sand-heat, invented by Captain Cumberland'

Reference number
CLP/7ii/2
Earliest possible date
29 March 1722
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'An account of the manner of bending planks in His Majesty's yards at Depthford [Deptford, London] by a sand-heat; invented by Captain Cumberland' by Robert Cay, 29 March 1722, CLP/7ii/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_7ii_2/paper-an-account-of-the-manner-of-bending-planks-in-his-majestys-yards-at-depthford-deptford-london-by-a-sand-heat-invented-by-captain-cumberland-by-robert-cay, accessed on 06 February 2025

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