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Letter, 'Account of the means to obtain an overflowing well' from Benjamin Vulliamy to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/11/30

Date: 1797

Description

Contains figure.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the means employed to obtain an overflowing well. In a letter to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. from Mr. Benjamin Vulliamy'

Read 25 May 1797

Reference number
L&P/11/30
Earliest possible date
1797
Physical description
Ink on paper and figure
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Account of the means to obtain an overflowing well' from Benjamin Vulliamy to Joseph Banks, 1797, L&P/11/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_30/letter-account-of-the-means-to-obtain-an-overflowing-well-from-benjamin-vulliamy-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 14 December 2024

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