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Paper, 'Experiments and observations to investigate the nature of a kind of steel manufactured at Bombay, and there called Wootz; with remarks on the properties and composition of the sidderent states of iron' by George Paarson

Reference number: L&P/10/122

Date: 1795

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Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations to investigate the nature of a kind of steel, manufactured at Bombay, and there called Wootz: with remarks on the properties and composition of the different states of iron'

Read 11 June 1795

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L&P/10/122
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1795
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13 pages
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George Pearson

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George Pearson, Paper, 'Experiments and observations to investigate the nature of a kind of steel manufactured at Bombay, and there called Wootz; with remarks on the properties and composition of the sidderent states of iron' by George Paarson, 1795, L&P/10/122, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_122/paper-experiments-and-observations-to-investigate-the-nature-of-a-kind-of-steel-manufactured-at-bombay-and-there-called-wootz-with-remarks-on-the-properties-and-composition-of-the-sidderent-states-of-iron-by-george-paarson, accessed on 02 December 2024

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