Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the best kind of steel and form for a compass needle' by Capt H [Henry] Kater
Reference number: PT/15/10
Date: 1821
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Subject: Scientific Instruments / Navigation
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the best kind of steel and form for a compass needle'.
Read 1 February 1821.
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/15/10
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- 1821
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- 34 pages
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1821
January 1819 - July 1821 Reference number: PT/15
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