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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'New experiments upon the Leyden phial, respecting the termination of conductors.'

Read 9 July 1778

Reference number
L&P/7/27
Earliest possible date
12 November 1777
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
36 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Benjamin Wilson

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Benjamin Wilson, Paper, 'New experiments and observations on the nature and uses of conductors' by Benjamin Wilson, 12 November 1777, L&P/7/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_27/paper-new-experiments-and-observations-on-the-nature-and-uses-of-conductors-by-benjamin-wilson, accessed on 14 November 2025

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