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'An Experiment to shew that the Friction of the several parts in a compound Engine may be reduced to Calculation' by J Desaguliers

Reference number: RBO/15/43

Date: 1730

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Drew consequences from some of the experiments shown at the Royal Society in the previous year upon simple machines in various circumstances now exemplified by the friction in a combination of pullies
Read to the Royal Society on 14 January 1730

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RBO/15/43
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1730
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3 pages
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'An Experiment to shew that the Friction of the several parts in a compound Engine may be reduced to Calculation' by J Desaguliers, 1730, RBO/15/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_15_43/an-experiment-to-shew-that-the-friction-of-the-several-parts-in-a-compound-engine-may-be-reduced-to-calculation-by-j-desaguliers, accessed on 17 January 2026

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