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Atwell presents a theory about how to move the water with siphons and reservoirs. Includes five original diagrams and one page of engraved figures from Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Engineering

Read to the Royal Society on 25 May 1732

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Conjectures upon the nature of intermitting and reciprocating springs.'

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CLP/6/73
Earliest possible date
25 May 1732
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Ink on paper
Page extent
31 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Joseph Atwell

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Joseph Atwell, Paper, 'Conjectures upon the nature of intermitting and reciprocating springs' by Joseph Atwell, 25 May 1732, CLP/6/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_73/paper-conjectures-upon-the-nature-of-intermitting-and-reciprocating-springs-by-joseph-atwell, accessed on 10 July 2025

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