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Letter, 'On the hot-air balloon' from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/8/37

Date: 08 October 1783

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Subject: Physics

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L&P/8/37
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08 October 1783
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin, Letter, 'On the hot-air balloon' from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 08 October 1783, L&P/8/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_37/letter-on-the-hot-air-balloon-from-benjamin-franklin-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 07 September 2026

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