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104 manuscript pages including two figures and one separate plate.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches on the strength of pillars of cast iron from various parts of the Kingdom'.

Received by the Royal Society on 20 November 1856. Read 8 January 1857.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/59/9
Earliest possible date
01 November 1856
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
105 pages
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Manuscript

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Eaton Hodgkinson

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Eaton Hodgkinson, Paper, 'Experimental researches on the strength of pillars of cast iron from various parts of the Kingdom' by Eaton Hodgkinson, 01 November 1856, PT/59/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_59_9/paper-experimental-researches-on-the-strength-of-pillars-of-cast-iron-from-various-parts-of-the-kingdom-by-eaton-hodgkinson, accessed on 22 January 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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