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Paper, 'Of a way of increasing the power of electrical machines' by Charles L'Epinasse

Reference number: L&P/4/380

Date: 1767

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Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of an improved apparatus for performing electrical experiments, in which the electrical power is increased, the operator intirely secured from receiving any any accidental shocks, and the whole rendered more convenient for experiments than heretofore'

Read 26 March 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/380
Earliest possible date
1767
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles David L' Espinasse

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Charles David L' Espinasse, Paper, 'Of a way of increasing the power of electrical machines' by Charles L'Epinasse, 1767, L&P/4/380, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_380/paper-of-a-way-of-increasing-the-power-of-electrical-machines-by-charles-lepinasse, accessed on 12 May 2025

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