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Letter, 'An improved wheel barometer' by Keane Fitzgerald to Charles Morton

Reference number: L&P/5/159

Date: 08 November 1769

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Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some improvements made in a new wheel barometer, invented by Keane Fitz Gerald, Esquire, F. R. S. In a letter to Charles Morton, M.D. Sec. R. S'

Read 22 February 1770

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L&P/5/159
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08 November 1769
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Keane Fitzgerald

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Keane Fitzgerald, Letter, 'An improved wheel barometer' by Keane Fitzgerald to Charles Morton, 08 November 1769, L&P/5/159, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_159/letter-an-improved-wheel-barometer-by-keane-fitzgerald-to-charles-morton, accessed on 14 May 2025

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