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Subject: Engineering

Read 5 March 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/270
Earliest possible date
20 February 1752
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of an improved permabulator or measuring wheel' from John Robertson to the Royal Society, 20 February 1752, L&P/2/270, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_270/letter-of-an-improved-permabulator-or-measuring-wheel-from-john-robertson-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 February 2025

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