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Image number: RS.10371
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Francis Hauksbee’s air pump
Date
1709
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
43300
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 232mm
width (print): 265mm
width (print): 265mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate illustrates pp.17-18, ‘The Description of the Machine for giving a swift Motion to Bodies in Vacuo, without admitting the External Air’, and shows Hauksbee’s air pump connected to a wheel mechanism which imparts a rapid rotation speed to a spindle within the glass dome of the air pump.
Plate II from Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709.
Hauksbee (ca.1660 – 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705, and was the Society’s Curator of Experiments from 1703 to 1713.
Plate II from Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709.
Hauksbee (ca.1660 – 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705, and was the Society’s Curator of Experiments from 1703 to 1713.
Object history
The Royal Society is in possession of a Hauksbee air pump, ca. 1709.
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