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Paper, 'On the methods of cutting rock crystal for micrometers' by Wm [William] Hyde Wollaston

Reference number: PT/14/9

Date: 1820

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Subject: Industry / Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the methods of cutting rock crystal for micrometers'.

Read 24 February 1820.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/14/9
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1820
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8 pages
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William Hyde Wollaston

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William Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'On the methods of cutting rock crystal for micrometers' by Wm [William] Hyde Wollaston, 1820, PT/14/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_9/paper-on-the-methods-of-cutting-rock-crystal-for-micrometers-by-wm-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 19 May 2025

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