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Paper, 'Of improved water-wheels and the utilization of river power' by Frederic Mallet

Reference number: L&P/4/401

Date: 1767

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9 pages in French, with 7 pages of English translation.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A memoir concerning the most advantageous construction of water-wheels, etc.'

Read 26 March 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/401
Earliest possible date
1767
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Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of improved water-wheels and the utilization of river power' by Frederic Mallet, 1767, L&P/4/401, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_401/paper-of-improved-water-wheels-and-the-utilization-of-river-power-by-frederic-mallet, accessed on 21 March 2025

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