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Paper, 'Description of a new electrical instrument capable of collecting together a diffused or little condensed quantity of electricity' by Tiberius Cavallo

Reference number: L&P/9/83

Date: 01 April 1788

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Contains plate [Not bound - held within the Letters & Papers Supplements Box (L&P.Supp.2)]

Subject: Scientific instruments/Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of a new electrical instrument capable of collecting together a diffused or little condensed quantity of electricity'

Read 10 April 1788

Reference number
L&P/9/83
Earliest possible date
01 April 1788
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
11 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Tiberius Cavallo

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Tiberius Cavallo, Paper, 'Description of a new electrical instrument capable of collecting together a diffused or little condensed quantity of electricity' by Tiberius Cavallo, 01 April 1788, L&P/9/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_83/paper-description-of-a-new-electrical-instrument-capable-of-collecting-together-a-diffused-or-little-condensed-quantity-of-electricity-by-tiberius-cavallo, accessed on 17 May 2025

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