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Paper, 'Of a centrifugal engine for raising water' by Robert Erskine

Reference number: L&P/4/243

Date: 1765

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Subject: Engineering

Read 24 January 1765

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L&P/4/243
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1765
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Erskine

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Robert Erskine, Paper, 'Of a centrifugal engine for raising water' by Robert Erskine, 1765, L&P/4/243, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_243/paper-of-a-centrifugal-engine-for-raising-water-by-robert-erskine, accessed on 17 January 2025

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