Record

RefNoRBO/12/33
AltRefNoRBO.12.740
LevelItem
Title'Account of Several Experiments concerning the running of Water in Pipes, as it is retarded by Friction and intermix'd Air some of which were made before the Royal Society on Thursday the 5th of May 1726 With a Description of a new Machine, whereby Pipes may be clear'd of Air, as the Water runs along without Stand Pipes or the help of any hand' by John Desaguliers
Date1726
DescriptionFigures of how the machine will work on p 746
Read to the Royal Society on 21 April 1726
LanguageEnglish
Extent7 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 34 no 393 (1726), p 77
RelatedRecordCLP/18ii/19
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8419Desaguliers; John Theophilus (1683 - 1744); natural philosopher1683 - 1744
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