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  <dc:title>Extract of a letter, 'About a new materiall for handguns and pistolls' from unknown author to [Henry] Oldenburg</dc:title>
  <dc:description>The author describes an invention by a goldsmith called Felix Werder of a way of making handguns and pistols from a new material called orichalcum.

Subject: Industry / Weaponry

Written by Werder in Zurich [Switzerland]. Read to the Royal Society on 8 October 1662.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 September 1662</dc:date>
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