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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Mr. Ebenezer Kinnersley to Benjamin Franklin, LL. D. F. R. S. on some electrical experiments made with charcoal'

Read 10 December 1772

Reference number
L&P/5/318
Earliest possible date
13 October 1770
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Some electrical experiments made with charcoal' by Ebenezer Kinnersley, 13 October 1770, L&P/5/318, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_318/letter-some-electrical-experiments-made-with-charcoal-by-ebenezer-kinnersley, accessed on 14 May 2025

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