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Paper, 'Attempt to make a thermometer for higher degrees of heat' by Josiah Wedgwood

Reference number: L&P/7/249

Date: 1782

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Subject: Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An attempt to make a thermometer for measuring the higher degrees of heat, from a red heat up to the strongest that vessels made of clay can support'

Read 9 May 1782

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L&P/7/249
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1782
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Ink on paper
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22 pages
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Josiah Wedgwood

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Josiah Wedgwood, Paper, 'Attempt to make a thermometer for higher degrees of heat' by Josiah Wedgwood, 1782, L&P/7/249, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_249/paper-attempt-to-make-a-thermometer-for-higher-degrees-of-heat-by-josiah-wedgwood, accessed on 10 December 2024

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