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Cromwell Mortimer wrote this account on 14 February 1736, the day before Stephen Gray died
Read to the Royal Society on 11 March 1735

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RBO/19/53
Earliest possible date
1735
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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'An Account of some electrical Experiments intended to be communicated to the Royal Society' by Stephen Gray, 1735, RBO/19/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_19_53/an-account-of-some-electrical-experiments-intended-to-be-communicated-to-the-royal-society-by-stephen-gray, accessed on 24 March 2025

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