Alteration to Papin's pneumatic engine
Date
9 April 1684
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p131
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 376mm
width (page): 238mm
width (page): 238mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Details of the alteration suggested by Denis Papin to his pneumatic engine, as presented to the meeting of the Royal Society on 9 April 1684.
Copied from the image at RBO/6/173.
Copied from the image at RBO/6/173.
Transcription
I dont express in this scheme, all the other part of the Engine, because they are the same that have been printed long ago.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 9 April 1684, ‘Dr. Papin shewed an alteration or improvement, which he had made of his pneumatic engine, by placing two valves instead of a turn-cock, for letting the air out of the receiver into the pump, and from the pump into the open air. He also shewed the experiment how the air driving some water into an exhausted bolt-head makes it represent a cylinder lying athwart the bolt-head’ (Birch 4:283-84).
Printed in Denis Papin, A continuation of the new digester of bones (London: J. Streater, 1687), fig. 13.
Printed in Denis Papin, A continuation of the new digester of bones (London: J. Streater, 1687), fig. 13.
Related fellows
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural philosopher
Associated place