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Table, 'A table for facilitating the computations relative to suspension bridges' by Davies Gilbert

Reference number: PT/19/5

Date: 1831

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Subject: Engineering

Published in volume 121 of Philosophical Transactions as 'A table for facilitating the computations relative to suspension bridges'.

Read 19 May 1831.

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 3, 1837.

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PT/19/5
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1831
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4 pages
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Davies Gilbert

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Davies Gilbert, Table, 'A table for facilitating the computations relative to suspension bridges' by Davies Gilbert, 1831, PT/19/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_19_5/table-a-table-for-facilitating-the-computations-relative-to-suspension-bridges-by-davies-gilbert, accessed on 13 October 2024

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