RBO/6/22
Details of two experiments by Dr Papin: 'Some Alteration or Improvement in his Pnewmatick Engin' and 'Of the Air's driving the water in an Exhausted Bolt-head in a Cylindrical Form'
9 April 1684
RBO/6/23
Dr Papin's experiment 'upon petrified Wood calcined applying to the Lodestone or tinging with Galls'
16 April 1684
RBO/6/24
Dr Papin's experiment of making Pitch or Turpentine penetrate into Plaster or Wood
23 April 1684
RBO/6/25
Dr Papin's Experiment for the swelling the Lungs, Kidney 'in Vacuo'
30 April 1684
RBO/6/26
Dr Papin's Experiment of driving Plaister into the Lungs And An Instrument for drying the parts of the Body, when they are most swelled 'in vacuo'
7 May 1684
RBO/6/27
Dr Papin's Experiment to examine the specific Gravity of the Air comparatively to water and what effect Heat and moisture hath on the gravity of Air
14 May 1684
RBO/6/28
Dr Papin's Experiments of dissolving Iron in the Open Air and 'in vacuo'
May 1684
RBO/6/29
Dr Papin's Experiment of the Suspension of water purged of Air in a Pipe
4 June 1684
RBO/6/30
Dr Papin's Experiment about the Adhesion of a Glass Cover to an Exhausted Receiver against the pretended Attraction 'motu vacui'
11 June 1684
RBO/6/31
'Dr Papin's Experiment made at Mr Boyls About suspending water in a Bolt-head'
18 June 1684
RBO/6/32
'Dr Papin's Experiment About air caused by a Dissolving body in a Florence Flask'
RBO/6/33
'Dr Papin's Experiment with Soap and Salt water (for washing linnen at Sea) by dissolving them in the Digesting Engin'
25 June 1684
RBO/6/34
Another Experiment by Dr Papin about the Suspension of Water 'in vacuo' made at Mr Boyle's
1684
RBO/6/35
Dr Papin's Experiment about softening the Box and Lignum Vitae in the Digesting Engine
2 July 1684
RBO/6/36
Dr Papin's Experiments in the digester for taking Impression in Relief
16 July 1684
RBO/6/37
Dr Papin's Experiments on Horn in the Digester - a further trial
23 July 1684
RBO/6/38
Dr Papin's experiments in the Vacation time during the Recess of the Royal Society
RBO/6/39
'Dr Papin's Experiment with the Muscle of a Man 'in vacuo' etc and a mercury gage to find the Quantity of Air Produced' from the muscle
20 September 1684
RBO/6/40
'Dr Papin's Experiment to prove that suction proceeds from the pressure of the Air'
29 October 1684
RBO/6/41
'About the Suspension of Mercury in a Tube higher then 31 Inches' by Denis Papin
5 November 1684
Papers of Colin Pillinger
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