Continuously burning lamp
Date
5 August 1695
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 295mm
width (page): 190mm
width (page): 190mm
Subject
Description
Diagram of a lamp that could burn continuously, in a letter from Robert St Clair (a former assistant of 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.
There are copies of this image at LBO/11ii/116 and LBC/11ii/124.
There are copies of this image at LBO/11ii/116 and LBC/11ii/124.
Object history
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).
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.
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.
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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