Paper, 'A description of an engine to raise water by the help of quicksilver, invented by the late Mr Joshua Haskins; and made practicable and usefull' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Reference number: CLP/6/64
Date: 19 April 1722
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The paper describes the use of quicksilver rather than leather to prevent water or air from spilling out of hydraulic engines that utilise pumps.
Subject: Engineering / Hydrostatics
Read to the Royal Society on 19 April 1722
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description of an engine to raise water by the help of quicksilver, invented by the late Mr. Joshua Haskins, and improv'd by J. T. Desaguliers, LL. D. R. S. S'.
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- CLP/6/64
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- 19 April 1722
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- 8 pages
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John Theophilus Desaguliers, Paper, 'A description of an engine to raise water by the help of quicksilver, invented by the late Mr Joshua Haskins; and made practicable and usefull' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers, 19 April 1722, CLP/6/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_64/paper-a-description-of-an-engine-to-raise-water-by-the-help-of-quicksilver-invented-by-the-late-mr-joshua-haskins-and-made-practicable-and-usefull-by-j-t-john-theophilus-desaguliers, accessed on 12 May 2026
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Date: 31st December 1723
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1722.0003
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Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'
1661-1735 Reference number: CLP/6
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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