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Letter, 'Of the quantity of fire-damp produced from the Main Band coal at Hind Pitt' from Carlisle Spedding to James Lother Bart

Reference number: L&P/1/78

Date: 14 November 1740

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Subject: Engineering

Read 8 January 1741

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L&P/1/78
Earliest possible date
14 November 1740
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the quantity of fire-damp produced from the Main Band coal at Hind Pitt' from Carlisle Spedding to James Lother Bart, 14 November 1740, L&P/1/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_78/letter-of-the-quantity-of-fire-damp-produced-from-the-main-band-coal-at-hind-pitt-from-carlisle-spedding-to-james-lother-bart, accessed on 21 January 2025

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