Paper, 'Of the quantity and proportion of mechanical power required to give different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies' by John Smeaton
Reference number: L&P/6/173
Date: 1776
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Subject: Mathematics/Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest.'
Read 25 April 1776
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- L&P/6/173
- Earliest possible date
- 1776
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- Ink on paper and plate
- Page extent
- 24 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Smeaton, Paper, 'Of the quantity and proportion of mechanical power required to give different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies' by John Smeaton, 1776, L&P/6/173, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_173/paper-of-the-quantity-and-proportion-of-mechanical-power-required-to-give-different-degrees-of-velocity-to-heavy-bodies-by-john-smeaton, accessed on 20 March 2025
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