Design of a siphon
Date
17 December 1684
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p159
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 377mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Denis Papin suggested at the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1684 that he could simplify the double siphon in Salomon Reisel’s Sipho Wurtembergicus (1684) by making the legs of one siphon bent. This design was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, no. 167 (1685).
This was copied from RBO/6/203.
This was copied from RBO/6/203.
Transcription
Being commanded to make up a Syphon fit to perform all the effects described in the Book called Sypho Wurtembergicus, I have perfected the double Syphon spoken off in the last meeting
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1684, ‘Dr. Papin shewed a way, by joining two syphons together, to work all the effects said in the book to be proper for the Sypho Wurtembergicus. He also proposed another way to do the same things by one syphon bent at the ends, as in the figure then produced' (Birch 4:350). The text and figure are printed in Birch 4:350-51.
Printed in Denis Papin, ‘Description of a siphon, performing the same things with the siphon Wurtemburgicus’, Phil. Trans. vol. 15, no. 167 (January 1685), pp. 847-78, fig. 6.
Printed in Denis Papin, ‘Description of a siphon, performing the same things with the siphon Wurtemburgicus’, Phil. Trans. vol. 15, no. 167 (January 1685), pp. 847-78, fig. 6.
Related fellows
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural philosopher
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