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RefNoMC/34/149
AltRefNo19149
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Owen A. Price, Lloyds Bank Chambers, Lincoln, to The Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W., to The Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W
CreatorPrice; Owen A (fl 1919)
Date11 April 1919
DescriptionThanking the Royal Society for granting him permission to visit their library and clarifies a previous enquiry in relation to a paper by Denis Papin in the Acta Eruditorum of Leipzig. The current enquiry pertains to a different work by Papin in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society. Aims to trace the origin of the centrifugal pump and believes the reference in the Philosophical Society's Transactions 1685 predates the Acta Eruditorum 1689.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
PhysicalDescriptionTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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