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Contains plate with figure.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Mr. Arderon to Mr. Baker, F. R. S. giving an account of the weaver's alarm, vulgò Larum'

Read 12 December 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/433
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Arderon

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William Arderon, Paper, 'Of the weaver's alarum [alarm]' by William Arderon, 1745, L&P/1/433, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_433/paper-of-the-weavers-alarum-alarm-by-william-arderon, accessed on 02 November 2024

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