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Letter, 'Of a new electrical machine [electrometer] and of some experiments made with it' from Timothy Lane to Benjamin Franklin

Reference number: L&P/4/411

Date: 1767

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of an electrometer invented by Mr. Lane; with an account of some experiments made by him with it: In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, LL. D. F. R. S.'

Read 26 November 1767

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L&P/4/411
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1767
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25 pages
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Manuscript

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Timothy Lane

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Timothy Lane, Letter, 'Of a new electrical machine [electrometer] and of some experiments made with it' from Timothy Lane to Benjamin Franklin, 1767, L&P/4/411, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_411/letter-of-a-new-electrical-machine-electrometer-and-of-some-experiments-made-with-it-from-timothy-lane-to-benjamin-franklin, accessed on 17 July 2025

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