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| Title | The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S., Written Between 1771 and 1781 Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 |
| Author | Henry Cavendish |
| Editor | James Clerk Maxwell |
| Publisher | University Press, 1879 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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