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Adams/Box 5-15/Box 15/29/1
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GB 275 Adams/Box 5-15/Box 15/29/1
Title
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Date(s)
- 19 May 1854 (Creation)
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4p paper
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Results of promised enquiry into experiments on motion of projectiles. No experiments done for many years. The Board of Ordnance refused Wheatstone's offer of the use of his apparatus. Experiments had been made with it in Russia, but the results had not been disclosed. Encloses [missing] comments from Capt. Boxer, Royal Military Acad. Woolwich.