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Subject: Engineering

Read 5 July 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/161
Earliest possible date
19 September 1749
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Improvements in the art of needle-making by machines' from Caleb Sheward and Moses Sheward to the Royal Society, 19 September 1749, L&P/2/161, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_161/letter-improvements-in-the-art-of-needle-making-by-machines-from-caleb-sheward-and-moses-sheward-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 02 December 2024

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