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Subject: Physics

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L&P/11/7
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23 June 1796
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Cavendish

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Charles Blagden

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Henry Cavendish, Charles Blagden, Letter, 'Official report on the lightning conductors at Purfleet' from Henry Cavendish and Charles Blagden to Joseph Banks, 23 June 1796, L&P/11/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_7/letter-official-report-on-the-lightning-conductors-at-purfleet-from-henry-cavendish-and-charles-blagden-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 12 February 2025

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