Paper, 'New experiments on gunpowder' by Benjamin Thompson
Reference number: L&P/7/191
Date: 1780
Description
Contains five plates.
Subject: Chemistry/Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'New experiments upon gun-powder, with occasional observations and practical inferences; to which are added, an account of a new method of determining the velocities of all kinds of military projectiles, and the description of a very accurate eprouvette for gun-powder'
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- Reference number
- L&P/7/191
- Earliest possible date
- 1780
- Physical description
- Ink on paper and five plates
- Page extent
- 128 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Benjamin Thompson, Paper, 'New experiments on gunpowder' by Benjamin Thompson, 1780, L&P/7/191, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_191/paper-new-experiments-on-gunpowder-by-benjamin-thompson, accessed on 08 February 2026
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XV. New experiments upon gun-powder, with occasional observations and practical inferences; to which are added, an account of a new method of determining the velocities of all kinds of military projectiles, and the description of a very accurate eprouvette for gun-powder External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1781
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1781.0039
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