Paper, 'An account of an experiment made December the 26th 1704 to try the quality of air produc’d from gunpowder, fir’d in Vacuo Boyliano' by Francis Hauksbee
Reference number: CLP/18i/82
Date: 1704
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Hauksbee writes: 'Upon making the late experiment of firing gunpowder in vacuo, it was hinted as well worthy of tryal, whether the factitious air of fir’d gunpowder was endu’d with any quality differing from common air.'
Subject: Physics
Read to the Royal Society on 21 March 1704
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment made Decemb. the 26th, 1704. To try the quality of air, produc’d from gunpowder, fir’d in Vacuo Boyliano'
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- 1704
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, 'An account of an experiment made December the 26th 1704 to try the quality of air produc’d from gunpowder, fir’d in Vacuo Boyliano' by Francis Hauksbee, 1704, CLP/18i/82, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_82/paper-an-account-of-an-experiment-made-december-the-26th-1704-to-try-the-quality-of-air-producd-from-gunpowder-fird-in-vacuo-boyliano-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 24 January 2026
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VII. An account of an experiment made Decemb. the 26th, 1704. To try the quality of air, produc’d from gunpowder, fir’d in Vacuo Boyliano External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Francis Hauksbee
Date: 1st January 1705
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1704.0052
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Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'
1678-1712 Creator: Denis Papin , Francis Hauksbee Reference number: CLP/18i
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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