| RefNo | RSL/1/25 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from William Macintosh, London, to Sir Joseph Banks |
| Date | 26 October 1782 |
| Description | He submits to the Royal Society, a model of a machine to raise "any reasonable quantity of water to any necessary height by a less power than any that has yet been discovered and upon a more simple and cheap construction"; the machine was shown by a man in poor circumstances when the writer was in Paris last winter; he recommended the inventor to send a model to England where the ingenuity of an alien would meet with encouragement and reward;as the inventor did nothing, Macintosh thought himself justified in having the model made and improving upon it. |
| Extent | 2 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | No photocopying |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |