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Letter, 'Appendix to the description of a new electrometer ' from Abraham Bennet to Charles Blagden

Reference number: L&P/9/19

Date: 18 December 1786

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Contains figure.

Subject: Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Appendix to the description of a new electrometer. In a letter from the Rev. Abraham Bennet, M. A. to Charles Blagden, M. D. Sec. R. S'

Read 21 December 1786

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L&P/9/19
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18 December 1786
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Abraham Bennet

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Abraham Bennet, Letter, 'Appendix to the description of a new electrometer ' from Abraham Bennet to Charles Blagden, 18 December 1786, L&P/9/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_19/letter-appendix-to-the-description-of-a-new-electrometer-from-abraham-bennet-to-charles-blagden, accessed on 22 January 2026

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