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Letter, 'Of the wind required to move the heavier kind of wind machine' from John Stedman to Samuel Horsley

Reference number: L&P/6/244

Date: 27 March 1777

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of the degrees and quantities of winds requisite to move the heavier kinds of wind machines. In a letter from John Stedman, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, to the Reverend Samuel Horsley, LL.D. Secretary to the Royal Society'

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Reference number
L&P/6/244
Earliest possible date
27 March 1777
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Ink on paper
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the wind required to move the heavier kind of wind machine' from John Stedman to Samuel Horsley, 27 March 1777, L&P/6/244, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_244/letter-of-the-wind-required-to-move-the-heavier-kind-of-wind-machine-from-john-stedman-to-samuel-horsley, accessed on 11 October 2026

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