Reference number | CLP/3i/20 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'A triall of a chariot' by Colonel [Thomas] Blount |
Date | 8 April 1665 |
Description | Blount records the results of various experiments in chariot construction, tested by loading the chariot with musket bullets and recording the number of bullets that caused the chariot to break in each scenario.
Subject: Transportation
Read to the Royal Society on 12 April 1665. |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Ink on paper |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA1496 | Blount; Thomas (c 1604 -); landowner and local politician | c 1604 - |