Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15224

    Experiments on barometers and the raising of mercury

    Date
    17th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 366mm
    width (page): 322mm
    Subject
    Description
    Francis Hauksbee did a series of experiments on barometers and the raising of fluids in small tubes during 1705 and 1706. The experiment in this document looks at the comparison of the raising and descending of air and mercury in a barometer inside and outside a compressing engine (or airpump).

    This particular text with drawings was not printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Related fellows
    Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
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