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Paper, 'Investigations, founded on the theory of motion, for determining the times of vibration of watch balances' by George Atwood

Reference number: L&P/10/74

Date: 1794

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Investigations, founded on the theory of motion, for determining the times of vibration of watch balances'

Read 27 February 1794

Reference number
L&P/10/74
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1794
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Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
83 pages
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Manuscript

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George Atwood

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George Atwood, Paper, 'Investigations, founded on the theory of motion, for determining the times of vibration of watch balances' by George Atwood, 1794, L&P/10/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_74/paper-investigations-founded-on-the-theory-of-motion-for-determining-the-times-of-vibration-of-watch-balances-by-george-atwood, accessed on 09 October 2026

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