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Machine by Perault with a new type of axis - axis in Peritrochio or 'roller fix'd into a large Pully'
Read to the Royal Society on 8 January 1729

Reference number
RBO/14/84
Earliest possible date
1729
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'A further Examination of the Machines said to be without Friction' by J T Desaguliers, 1729, RBO/14/84, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_84/a-further-examination-of-the-machines-said-to-be-without-friction-by-j-t-desaguliers, accessed on 10 May 2026

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