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Paper, 'Of renewing the air in close places' by Sutton

Reference number: L&P/1/53

Date: 1741

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Subject: Aerodynamics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of Mr. Sutton's invention and method of changing the air in the hold, and other close parts of a ship; communicated to the Royal Society by Richard Mead, M. D. Physician to His Majesty, Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal College of Physicians, London'

Read 18 February 1741.

Reference number
L&P/1/53
Earliest possible date
1741
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of renewing the air in close places' by Sutton, 1741, L&P/1/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_53/paper-of-renewing-the-air-in-close-places-by-sutton, accessed on 11 September 2024

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