New engine for raising water
Date
late 17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p377
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 298mm
width (page): 177mm
width (page): 177mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Sketch of Denis Papin's new contrivance of a perpetual fountain (RBO/6/072) shown to the Royal Society in June 1685. The image was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, no. 173 (1685) to advertise the invention as a 'riddle' for others to guess its design, which was a way to claim priority.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 June 1685, ‘Dr. Papin produced the draught of a fountain of his own contrivance, which being liable to be spoiled by being removed, he desired the Society to appoint some persons to see the working of it for a whole day together, whether it will not run constantly without losing any thing of its strength’ (Birch 4:405).
Printed in Denis Papin, ‘A new way of raising water’, Phil. Trans. vol. 15, no. 173 (July 1685), pp. 1093-94.
Printed in Denis Papin, ‘A new way of raising water’, Phil. Trans. vol. 15, no. 173 (July 1685), pp. 1093-94.
Related fellows
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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