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Subject: Engineering

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Reference number
L&P/9/106
Earliest possible date
13 February 1788
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
12 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Description of three models of improvements in the steam engine' from T D Pearse to Joseph Banks, 13 February 1788, L&P/9/106, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_106/letter-description-of-three-models-of-improvements-in-the-steam-engine-from-t-d-pearse-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 28 April 2025

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