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Regarding the means by which air might be vitiated by passing through fire and flame, for example through hot brass and iron tubes using a bird within the tube as an indicator for the air's levels of pollution. Desaguliers bases his experiment on others done by Francis Hawksbee [Hauksbee].

Subject: Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 22 April 1714

Reference number
CLP/18ii/2
Earliest possible date
15 April 1714
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Theophilus Desaguliers

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John Theophilus Desaguliers, Paper, 'An experiment made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers, 15 April 1714, CLP/18ii/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18ii_2/paper-an-experiment-made-before-the-royal-society-by-j-t-john-theophilus-desaguliers, accessed on 08 December 2024

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    Dates: 1592-1741

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