RefNo | AP/6/14/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished letter, on artificial freezing of seawater from Mignonneau to [Sir Joseph Banks] |
Date | 4 April 1792 |
Description | Letter from Mignonneau, Commissaire des Gardes du Corps du Roi [Superintendent of the King's Bodyguards], regarding artifical freezing of seawater, which he believes could be beneficial to navigators, maritime commerce, and society in general. He describes being inspired by reading of the voyages of Captain [James] Cook, who allowed ice from the Antarctic Ocean to melt on his ship in order to have drinking water for his crew, even though this ice was supposedly formed from seawater. Mignonneau concluded as a result that it must be through freezing that seawater can be made potable, and he explains his efforts to encourage chemists to invent a method for freezing water or turning water into snow in all climates.
Subject: Chemistry
Addressed to the President of the Royal Society [Sir Joseph Banks]. Written by Mignonneau in at 33 rue Thévenot [rue Réaumur], Paris [France]. |
Language | French |
Extent | 11p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | AP/6/14 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |
NA8183 | Cook; James (1728 - 1779) | 1728 - 1779 |