'Experiments to be made Relating to Land-Carriage' Proposed by Sir William Petty
Reference number: RBO/6/17
Date: 14 May 1684
Description
Lists enquiries to be carried out to investigate the difference and advantages of all various carriages eg horse, cart with two wheels, coach, wheel barrow, straddles, sled, waggon with four wheels, cars on two high wheels, drays on two small wheels, Irish carts on two very small wheels
- Reference number
- RBO/6/17
- Earliest possible date
- 14 May 1684
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Petty, 'Experiments to be made Relating to Land-Carriage' Proposed by Sir William Petty, 14 May 1684, RBO/6/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_6_17/experiments-to-be-made-relating-to-land-carriage-proposed-by-sir-william-petty, accessed on 20 July 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-1687
1685-1687 Reference number: RBO/6
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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