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RefNoL&P/6/173/1
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Of the quantity and proportion of mechanical power required to give different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies' by John Smeaton
Date1776
DescriptionSubject: Mathematics/Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest.'

Read 25 April 1776
Extent23p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1776.0029
RelatedRecordL&P/6/173
L&P/6/173/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6321Smeaton; John (1724 - 1792)1724 - 1792
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