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Paper, 'An account of a new engine for raising water' by Walter Churchman

Reference number: CLP/6/75

Date: 17 April 1735

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Churchman presents a description of his new engine for raising water 'in which horses or other animals draw, without any loss of power (which has never yet been practised) and how the strokes of the pistons may be made of any length, to prevent the loss of water, by the too frequent opening of values with many other advantages, altogether new the model of which was shewn to the Royal Society on the 28th of last November'.

Subject: Engineering

Read to the Royal Society on 17 April 1735

Reference number
CLP/6/75
Earliest possible date
17 April 1735
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'An account of a new engine for raising water' by Walter Churchman, 17 April 1735, CLP/6/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_75/paper-an-account-of-a-new-engine-for-raising-water-by-walter-churchman, accessed on 08 September 2026

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