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Letter, 'Of weighing electricity' from unknown author to John Ellicott

Reference number: L&P/1/457

Date: 1746

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from — to Mr. John Ellicot, F. R. S. of weighing the strength of electrical effluvia'

Read 6 March 1746

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L&P/1/457
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1746
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Ellicott

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John Ellicott, Letter, 'Of weighing electricity' from unknown author to John Ellicott, 1746, L&P/1/457, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_457/letter-of-weighing-electricity-from-unknown-author-to-john-ellicott, accessed on 12 July 2025

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