Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15254

    The spontaneous ascension of water in small tubes

    Date
    15 April 1706
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 310mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    An experiment executed by Francis Hauksbee at Gresham College on the capillary rise of water in small tubes. The experiment examines whether there is any difference between the capillary working in a vacuum and in open air. The experiment shows there is not.
    Transcription
    An experiment made at Gresham College Aprill the 15th, 1706 showing that the seemingly spontanious ascention of Water in small tubes open at both ends is the same in vacuo as in the open air, by F. Hauksbee, FRS.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Fig. 4: a glass vacuum instrument, in F. Hauksbee, ‘An experiment made at Gresham College, shewing that the seemingly spontaneous ascension of water in small tubes open at both ends is the same in vacuo as in the open air’, Phil. Trans., vol. 25, no. 305 (January, February and March 1706), pp. 2223-24.
    Related fellows
    Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
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