'The Description of an Instrument for the Triall of Gunpowder' by Mr Hook [Robert Hooke]
Reference number: RBO/2i/69a
Date: 9 September 1663
Description
Description of the design and use of an instrument which uses weights to measure the strength of a gun powder blast.
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- Reference number
- RBO/2i/69a
- Earliest possible date
- 9 September 1663
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Hooke, 'The Description of an Instrument for the Triall of Gunpowder' by Mr Hook [Robert Hooke], 9 September 1663, RBO/2i/69a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2i_69a/the-description-of-an-instrument-for-the-triall-of-gunpowder-by-mr-hook-robert-hooke, accessed on 27 April 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2i, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663
1662-1663 Reference number: RBO/2i
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Robert Hooke
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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