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Letter, 'On the appearance of lightning on a mainmast conductor' from Captain I L Winn to Benjamin Franklin

Reference number: L&P/5/166

Date: 01 February 1770

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter to Dr. Benjamin Franklin, F. R. S. giving an account of the appearance of lightning on a conductor fixed from the summit of the mainmast of a ship, down to the water: By Capt. I. L. Winn'

Read 29 March 1770

Reference number
L&P/5/166
Earliest possible date
01 February 1770
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On the appearance of lightning on a mainmast conductor' from Captain I L Winn to Benjamin Franklin, 01 February 1770, L&P/5/166, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_166/letter-on-the-appearance-of-lightning-on-a-mainmast-conductor-from-captain-i-l-winn-to-benjamin-franklin, accessed on 24 January 2026

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