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Paper, 'Conjectures concerning electricity and the rise of vapours' by John Theophilis Desaguliers

Reference number: L&P/1/108

Date: 1742

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some conjectures concerning electricity, and the rise of vapours'.

Read 24 June 1742.

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L&P/1/108
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1742
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Theophilus Desaguliers

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John Theophilus Desaguliers, Paper, 'Conjectures concerning electricity and the rise of vapours' by John Theophilis Desaguliers, 1742, L&P/1/108, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_108/paper-conjectures-concerning-electricity-and-the-rise-of-vapours-by-john-theophilis-desaguliers, accessed on 16 March 2026

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