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'An account of the manner of bending Planks in his Majesties yards at Deptford etc by a sand heat invented by Captain Cumberland' by Robert Cay

Reference number: RBO/11/50

Date: 1722

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Details about ship building
Figure and explanation of figure attached
Read to the Royal Society on 29 March 1722

Reference number
RBO/11/50
Earliest possible date
1722
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'An account of the manner of bending Planks in his Majesties yards at Deptford etc by a sand heat invented by Captain Cumberland' by Robert Cay, 1722, RBO/11/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_50/an-account-of-the-manner-of-bending-planks-in-his-majesties-yards-at-deptford-etc-by-a-sand-heat-invented-by-captain-cumberland-by-robert-cay, accessed on 10 December 2024

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