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Paper, 'Of the failure of eight pointed conductors to prevent the poor-house at Heckingham, Norfolk' by Charles Blagden and Edward Nairne

Reference number: L&P/7/239

Date: 1782

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Consists of one report, one letter and seven plates.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Proceedings relative to the accident by lightning at Heckingham.'

Read 28 February 1782

Reference number
L&P/7/239
Earliest possible date
1782
Physical description
Ink on paper and seven plates
Page extent
33 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Nairne

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Charles Blagden

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Edward Nairne, Charles Blagden, Paper, 'Of the failure of eight pointed conductors to prevent the poor-house at Heckingham, Norfolk' by Charles Blagden and Edward Nairne, 1782, L&P/7/239, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_239/paper-of-the-failure-of-eight-pointed-conductors-to-prevent-the-poor-house-at-heckingham-norfolk-by-charles-blagden-and-edward-nairne, accessed on 14 January 2025

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