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'Subterraneous Experiments or Observations made in Coalmines in October 1662 by Dr Power'

Reference number: RBO/2i/9

Date: 1662

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Five experiments explained with figure of a weather glass in margin; observations of damp in the mine identifying three types of damp (the common, the suffocating and the fiery); observations of William Gerrard's pits in Lancashire

Read to the Royal Society on 3 December 1662

Plan of the coal mine inserted

Not copied in RBO/2ii

Reference number
RBO/2i/9
Earliest possible date
1662
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'Subterraneous Experiments or Observations made in Coalmines in October 1662 by Dr Power', 1662, RBO/2i/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2i_9/subterraneous-experiments-or-observations-made-in-coalmines-in-october-1662-by-dr-power, accessed on 14 October 2024

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