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Paper, 'Essay on a new method of applying the screw' by William Hunter

Reference number: L&P/7/179

Date: 1780

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Essay on a new method of applying the screw'

Read 21 December 1780

Reference number
L&P/7/179
Earliest possible date
1780
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Hunter

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William Hunter, Paper, 'Essay on a new method of applying the screw' by William Hunter, 1780, L&P/7/179, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_179/paper-essay-on-a-new-method-of-applying-the-screw-by-william-hunter, accessed on 16 June 2025

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