Catalogue Entry: MINT00704

Report on a new design of furnace in Cornwall for melting tin

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/546-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Contradictory reports have been received. The Mint does not have the necessary premises and equipment to conduct its own tests, and proposes that experiments be made in Cornwall by duly appointed agents.

Printed in NC, 4: 516-18.

[1] Mint Office,
    April 1708.

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