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'Sir Thomas Lombe's new Machine for working Onganzine silk erected at Derby ...'

Reference number: RBO/14/95

Date: 1729

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Machine consisted of 26,586 wheels and 97,746 movements which can work 73,738 yards of silk every time the water wheel goes around
Read to the Royal Society on 22 January 1729

Reference number
RBO/14/95
Earliest possible date
1729
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'Sir Thomas Lombe's new Machine for working Onganzine silk erected at Derby ...', 1729, RBO/14/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_95/sir-thomas-lombes-new-machine-for-working-onganzine-silk-erected-at-derby, accessed on 19 April 2026

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