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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'

18 June 1684

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

1684

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

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