Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16482

    Air pump

    Date
    1705
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p159
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 285mm
    width (paper): 188mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Vacuum physics
          > Pneumatics
    Content object
    Description
    A scheme of an apparatus to create friction in an air pump, printed in Francis Hauksbee, ‘Several Experiments on the Attrition of Bodies in Vacuo’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, no. 304 (November and December 1705).
    Object history
    Francis Hauksbee, ‘Several Experiments on the Attrition of Bodies in Vacuo’, Phil. Trans., vol. 24, no. 304 (November and December 1705), pp. 2165-75, tab. 2.
    Related fellows
    Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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