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Paper, 'On a machine to raise weights by gunpowder' by Denis Papin

Reference number: EL/P1/88

Date: 1688

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Sent to Edmund King enclosed with EL/P1/89
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EL/P1/88
Earliest possible date
1688
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Denis Papin

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Denis Papin, Paper, 'On a machine to raise weights by gunpowder' by Denis Papin, 1688, EL/P1/88, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_88/paper-on-a-machine-to-raise-weights-by-gunpowder-by-denis-papin, accessed on 12 November 2025

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