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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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CLP/18i/82
Earliest possible date
1704
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Francis Hauksbee

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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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