Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16007

    Bent glass tube

    Date
    23 April 1662
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p81v
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 297mm
    width (page): 187mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    A small drawing 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.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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