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Paper, 'Lighting a candle by a very moderate spark' by John Ingenhousz

Reference number: L&P/7/60

Date: 1778

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A ready way of lighting a candle, by a very moderate electrical spark'

Read 9 July 1778

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L&P/7/60
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1778
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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John Ingenhousz

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John Ingenhousz, Paper, 'Lighting a candle by a very moderate spark' by John Ingenhousz, 1778, L&P/7/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_60/paper-lighting-a-candle-by-a-very-moderate-spark-by-john-ingenhousz, accessed on 20 June 2025

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