Letter, 'Of the invention of the compensating pendulum' from James Short to R Davell
Reference number: L&P/2/319
Date: 1752
Description
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter of Mr. James Short, F. R, S. to the Royal Society, concerning the inventor of the contrivance in the pendulum of a clock, to prevent the irregularities of its motion by heat and cold'
Read 9 June 1752
- Reference number
- L&P/2/319
- Earliest possible date
- 1752
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 8 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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James Short, Letter, 'Of the invention of the compensating pendulum' from James Short to R Davell, 1752, L&P/2/319, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_319/letter-of-the-invention-of-the-compensating-pendulum-from-james-short-to-r-davell, accessed on 15 March 2025
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