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Paper, 'Effect of electricity in shortening wires' by Edward Nairne

Reference number: L&P/7/160

Date: 1780

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the effect of electricity in shortening wires'

Read 11 May 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/160
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1780
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Nairne

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Edward Nairne, Paper, 'Effect of electricity in shortening wires' by Edward Nairne, 1780, L&P/7/160, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_160/paper-effect-of-electricity-in-shortening-wires-by-edward-nairne, accessed on 22 April 2026

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