Bent glass tube
Date
23 April 1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p55a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 308mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A small drawing (20 mm high x 5 mm wide) in the margin of a tube for experimenting with the compression of air, with the use of an air pump. Robert Boyle produced this glass tube at the meeting of the Royal Society on 23 April 1662.
This is copied in JBC/1/052.
This is copied in JBC/1/052.
Transcription
Mr Boyle brought in a glasse tube bent as in the Margen (whose short end was sealed up) containing water for to compresse aire.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 23 April 1662, ‘Mr. Boyle brought in a glass-tube, bent as in the margin, (the short end of which was sealed up) containing water for compressing the air' (Birch 1:80, where the figure is also reproduced).
Related fellows
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place