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Paper, 'Of a pump at Seville' by William Bowles

Reference number: L&P/4/303

Date: 1766

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Contains figure.

Subject: Engineering

Read 20 February 1766

Reference number
L&P/4/303
Earliest possible date
1766
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of a pump at Seville' by William Bowles, 1766, L&P/4/303, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_303/paper-of-a-pump-at-seville-by-william-bowles, accessed on 30 November 2023

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