Letter, from Stephen Gray to Granville Wheler, dated at London
Reference number: EL/G2/33
Date: 06 February 1736
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Details experiments to show the pendulous motion of small bodies by electricity
Further experiments with a boy as a conductor
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 39, no 441, p 220
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- EL/G2/33
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- 06 February 1736
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- 2 pages
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Stephen Gray, Stephen Gray, Letter, from Stephen Gray to Granville Wheler, dated at London, 06 February 1736, EL/G2/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g2_33/letter-from-stephen-gray-to-granville-wheler-dated-at-london, accessed on 25 June 2025
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II. Mr. Stephen Gray, F. R. S. his last letter to Granville Wheler Esq; F. R. S. concerning the revolutions which small pendulous bodies will, by electricity, make round larger ones from west to east as the planets do round the sun External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1735
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1735.0044
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Granville Wheler
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Stephen Gray
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