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Image number: RS.9822
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A steam piston engine
Date
1709
Creator
Thomas Savery (1645 - 1715, British) , Inventor
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 98mm
width (drawing): 84mm
width (drawing): 84mm
Subject
Description
Sketch of a machine for raising water by steam, included in the manuscript copy account “A letter to the Revd. Dr. John Harris F.R.S. relating to a pretended invention of Dr. Papin F.R.S.. By Thomas Savery Esquire F.R.S.”. Savery describes a model sent to him by the Prince of Hesse-Kassel and his explanation of why it did not work. These improvements, he claims, were then appropriated by Denis Papin (1647-c.1712) the Prince’s operator. The drawing is not signed.
Royal Society Register Book Original, vol.9 1700-1713, pp.211-217. The paper was read before the Royal Society on 18 May 1709, but not published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Royal Society Register Book Original, vol.9 1700-1713, pp.211-217. The paper was read before the Royal Society on 18 May 1709, but not published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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