Paper, 'Description of a new electrometer' by Abraham Bennet

Reference number: L&P/9/13

Date: 14 September 1786

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Contains three plates.

Subject: Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of a new electrometer. In a letter from the Rev. Abraham Bennet, M. A. to the Rev. Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S'

Read 7 December 1786

Reference number: L&P/9/13
Earliest possible date: 14 September 1786
Physical description: Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent: 13 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Abraham Bennet

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Abraham Bennet, Paper, 'Description of a new electrometer' by Abraham Bennet, 14 September 1786, L&P/9/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_13/paper-description-of-a-new-electrometer-by-abraham-bennet, accessed on 19 July 2025

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IV. Description of a new electrometer. In a letter from the Rev. Abraham Bennet, M. A. to the Rev. Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1787

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1787.0004

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 9 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1786-1792 Reference number: L&P/9

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