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Paper, 'Observations on the manner in which glass is charged and discharged with electric fluid' by Edward Whitaker Gray

Reference number: L&P/9/75

Date: 1788

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the manner in which glass is charged with the electric fluid, and discharged'

Read 17 January 1788

Reference number
L&P/9/75
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1788
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Whitaker Gray

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Edward Whitaker Gray, Paper, 'Observations on the manner in which glass is charged and discharged with electric fluid' by Edward Whitaker Gray, 1788, L&P/9/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_75/paper-observations-on-the-manner-in-which-glass-is-charged-and-discharged-with-electric-fluid-by-edward-whitaker-gray, accessed on 14 April 2026

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