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  <dc:title>'Letter to the Reverend Dr John Harris FRS relating to a pretended Invention of Dr Papin FRS' by Thomas Savery</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerning machine to raise water by fire - discussing Papin's improvements (see RBO/9/83)
Figure;  ink and inkwash on paper. Size 99x84mm
Sketch of a machine for raising water by steam, included in this manuscript copy account. Savery describes a model sent to him by the Prince of Hesse-Kassel and his explanation of why it did not work.  These improvements, he claims, were then appropriated by Denis Papin (1647-c.1712) the Prince's operator.

Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1709, but not published in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.
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  <dc:date>1709</dc:date>
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