Instrument for drawing up great weights
Date
5 May 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p175
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 364mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Design by Christopher Wren of an instrument to wind up weights with ropes for wells, mines and cranes. This was read to a meeting of the Royal Society on 5 May 1670 when it was suggested to Robert Hooke that it could be used for clock mechanisms.
This image is copied from RBO/4/099.
This image is copied from RBO/4/099.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 5 May 1670, ‘Dr. Christopher Wren produced a new contrivance of his for a more convenient winding up of weights by ropes, and serving for wells, mines and cranes, and thought applicable to clocks. […] This being thought applicable to clocks, Mr. Hooke was ordered to make a trial of it’ (Birch 2:435). The minutes do not specify that this was to be registered.
Related fellows
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
Associated place