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Paper, 'On the wind-gauge' by James Lind

Reference number: L&P/6/116

Date: 26 May 1775

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Contains plate.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description and use of a portable wind gage.'

Read 1 June 1775

Reference number
L&P/6/116
Earliest possible date
26 May 1775
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
16 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Lind

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James Lind, Paper, 'On the wind-gauge' by James Lind, 26 May 1775, L&P/6/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_116/paper-on-the-wind-gauge-by-james-lind, accessed on 11 July 2026

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