Paper, 'Of a new kind of inflammable air' by John Ingenhousz
Reference number: L&P/7/100
Date: 1779

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Contains one plate.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a new kind of inflammable air or gass, which can be made in a moment without apparatus, and is as fit for explosion as other inflammable gasses in use for that purpose; together with a new theory of gun-powder'
Read 25 March 1779
- Reference number
- L&P/7/100
- Earliest possible date
- 1779
- Physical description
- Ink on paper and plate
- Page extent
- 27 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Ingenhousz, Paper, 'Of a new kind of inflammable air' by John Ingenhousz, 1779, L&P/7/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_100/paper-of-a-new-kind-of-inflammable-air-by-john-ingenhousz, accessed on 11 July 2025
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Date: 31st December 1779
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1779.0027
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Appendix, 'Of a new kind of inflammable air' by John Ingenhousz
Creator: John Ingenhousz Reference number: L&P/7/109b
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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
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Decade 7 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1778-1782 Reference number: L&P/7
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