A Philosophical Business: Edward Nairne and the Patent Medical Electrical Machine (1782)

History of Technology, Volume 23, 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 41-58

  Bertucci, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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