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Letter, 'The effect of lightning on metallic wires' from Edward Nairne to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/16

Date: 22 January 1783

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. Edward Nairne, F. R. S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. containing an account of wire being shortened by lightning'

Read 6 February 1783

Reference number
L&P/8/16
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22 January 1783
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Ink on paper
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Nairne

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Edward Nairne, Letter, 'The effect of lightning on metallic wires' from Edward Nairne to Joseph Banks, 22 January 1783, L&P/8/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_16/letter-the-effect-of-lightning-on-metallic-wires-from-edward-nairne-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 27 April 2025

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