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  <dc:title>Paper, 'On the friction arising from weight, and the means of annihilating it', by Joseph, styled Count de Thiville</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A discussion of friction using the example of a cylindrical bodies with differing weights. The text refers to illustrative figures, which are not present. Communicated to the Royal Society by James Rennie (1787-1867) FRS, naturalist. Not published.

One Joseph Gaston Jean Baptiste, styled Count de Thiville of Piccadilly in the County of Middlesex submitted a patent specification in 1801 'For certain new methods of giving an independent moving power to all machines...'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>early 19th century</dc:date>
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