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Captain [Arthur Batt] Bingham on a perpetual log, 1823

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/31: 247-249
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Letter to Dr Thomas Young requesting to submit a model of a perpetual log invented and used by Bingham while in command of the ship HMS Dover. He also provides a description of the log and how it should be used.

Dates: 1823
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