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Paper, 'Of the quick firing canons of Eide Siade Johans' by John Smeaton

Reference number: L&P/2/357

Date: 1753

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Subject: Engineering

Read 7 June 1753

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L&P/2/357
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1753
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Smeaton

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John Smeaton, Paper, 'Of the quick firing canons of Eide Siade Johans' by John Smeaton, 1753, L&P/2/357, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_357/paper-of-the-quick-firing-canons-of-eide-siade-johans-by-john-smeaton, accessed on 14 October 2024

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