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Paper, 'Account of Dr Priestley's new experiments in electricity drawn up by Benjamin Franklin'

Reference number: L&P/5/12

Date: 1768

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Subject: Physics

Read 10 March 1768

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L&P/5/12
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1768
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5 pages
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Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley, Paper, 'Account of Dr Priestley's new experiments in electricity drawn up by Benjamin Franklin', 1768, L&P/5/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_12/paper-account-of-dr-priestleys-new-experiments-in-electricity-drawn-up-by-benjamin-franklin, accessed on 22 March 2025

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