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Letter, 'Of Philip Williams water-wheel' from William Arderon to Henry Baker

Reference number: L&P/1/437

Date: 1745

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Contains two illustrations.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Part of a letter from Mr. Wm. Arderon, F. R. S. to Mr. Baker, F. R. S. containing a description of a water-wheel for mills invented by Mr. Philip Williams. With an extract of a letter from the Rev. Dr. Samuel Salter to Mr. Arderon, concerning the bark preventing catching cold'

Read 9 January 1746

Reference number
L&P/1/437
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper and illustration
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Arderon

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William Arderon, Letter, 'Of Philip Williams water-wheel' from William Arderon to Henry Baker, 1745, L&P/1/437, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_437/letter-of-philip-williams-water-wheel-from-william-arderon-to-henry-baker, accessed on 22 January 2025

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