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Paper, 'An attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic sluid' by Henry Cavendish

Reference number: L&P/5/264

Date: 1771

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An attempt to explain some of the principal phænomena of electricity, by means of an elastic fluid'

Read 19 December 1771

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L&P/5/264
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1771
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Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish, Paper, 'An attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic sluid' by Henry Cavendish, 1771, L&P/5/264, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_264/paper-an-attempt-to-explain-some-of-the-principal-phenomena-of-electricity-by-means-of-an-elastic-sluid-by-henry-cavendish, accessed on 25 June 2025

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