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Account of two instruments - one with ordinary clock-wheels and the other with cylinders for the teeth of the wheels by Denis Papin

Reference number: RBO/9/102

Date: 1711

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Defines natural resistance and accidental resistance
Read to the Royal Society on 5 July 1711

Reference number
RBO/9/102
Earliest possible date
1711
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Account of two instruments - one with ordinary clock-wheels and the other with cylinders for the teeth of the wheels by Denis Papin, 1711, RBO/9/102, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_9_102/account-of-two-instruments-one-with-ordinary-clock-wheels-and-the-other-with-cylinders-for-the-teeth-of-the-wheels-by-denis-papin, accessed on 20 July 2026

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