Continuously burning lamp
Date
9 August 1695
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p116
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 314mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagram of a lamp that could burn continuously in a letter (EL/C2/27/003) from Robert St Clair (a former assistant to Robert Boyle) to Robert Hooke. The letter was read to the meeting of the Royal Society on 13 November 1695, and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 20, no. 245 (October 1698), pp. 378-81.
This is copied in LBC/11ii/124.
This is copied in LBC/11ii/124.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 13 November 1695, 'There was read an account of a small spot of ground near Fierenzola in Italy emitting perpetually a flame, for a space of about 3 or 4 yards Diameter, which the writer supposes to arise from a petroleous vapour. The same paper mention'd a Lamp so contrived as to keep the Oil always at the same height' (JBO/9/201).
Printed in Robert St Clair, ‘An account of a very odd eruption of fire out of a spot in the Earth near Fierenzola in Italy, with an easy contrivance of a lamp to be kept always full whilst it burns’, Phil. Trans. vol. 20, no. 245 (October 1698), pp. 378-81.
Printed in Robert St Clair, ‘An account of a very odd eruption of fire out of a spot in the Earth near Fierenzola in Italy, with an easy contrivance of a lamp to be kept always full whilst it burns’, Phil. Trans. vol. 20, no. 245 (October 1698), pp. 378-81.
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