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  <dc:title>Letter, 'Relateing to a pretended invention of Dr [Denis] Papin' by Thomas Savery to Dr John Harris</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A letter describing the interest the Prince of Hess [Hesse] had in Savery's method of using fire to raise water [a steam engine], and the Prince's attempt at creating a model of a similar machine. Savery attributes Papin's 1707 improvement on this machine to his involvement with the Prince of Hess. 

Subject: Engineering / Thermodynamics

Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1709.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1709]</dc:date>
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