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Paper, 'Of a machine for killing whales' by John Bond

Reference number: L&P/2/287

Date: 1752

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Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a machine for killing of whales, proposed by John Bond, M. D'

Read 23 April 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/287
Earliest possible date
1752
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of a machine for killing whales' by John Bond, 1752, L&P/2/287, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_287/paper-of-a-machine-for-killing-whales-by-john-bond, accessed on 12 December 2024

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