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Contains five figures.

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'

Read 29 March 1781

Reference number
L&P/7/191/3
Earliest possible date
1780
Physical description
Illustration on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Benjamin Thompson

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Benjamin Thompson, Plate, 'Cross section of barrel' by Benjamin Thompson, 1780, L&P/7/191/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_191_3/plate-cross-section-of-barrel-by-benjamin-thompson, accessed on 11 February 2026

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