Letter concerning Mr Eyre's experiments in drawing bars with horse- and water-mills

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/182.9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<51r>

Novem. 19. 1714.

May it please your Lordship

I have spoke with M^r Eyres, & his Answer is, that he can make the experiment in a horse-mill, & within a week will deliver into the Mint an hundred weight of barrs drawn after the manner proposed by him. But a water-mill is cheaper & goes with more strength for making dispatch with fewer draughts & less wast of the metal & so enables him to perform the undertaking at a cheaper rate.

I am

My Lord

Your Lordships most humble

& most obedient servant

Is: Newton

^[1] <52v>

Sir Isaac Newton

read 19^th Nov^r. 1714.

My Lords desire M^r. Eyres to go on with all the {Expediousness} that may be.

^[1] Earl of Halifax