Air pump
Date
1705
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Francis Hauksbee’s air pump, with wooden ladder leading to the wheel mechanism, complete with spindle, supported by an iron frame and connected to a glass dome opposite, where a partial vacuum was created.
Illustration to ‘Several experiments on the attrition of bodies in vacuo. Made before the Royal Society at Gresham College’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 304 (December 1705). Original illustration can be found in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/18i/92.
Francis Hauksbee (1688–1763), British instrument maker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705.
Illustration to ‘Several experiments on the attrition of bodies in vacuo. Made before the Royal Society at Gresham College’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 304 (December 1705). Original illustration can be found in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/18i/92.
Francis Hauksbee (1688–1763), British instrument maker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705.
Related fellows
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
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