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Paper, 'Of heating rooms by steam in pipes' by William Cook

Reference number: L&P/1/388

Date: 1745

Description

Contains a diagram. Also contain a note giving a 'soldier's advice to a sailor'

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A proposal for warming rooms by the steam of boiling water conveyed in pipes along the walls: and a method of preventing ships from leaking, whose bottoms are eaten by the worms'

Read 2 May 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/388
Earliest possible date
1745
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of heating rooms by steam in pipes' by William Cook, 1745, L&P/1/388, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_388/paper-of-heating-rooms-by-steam-in-pipes-by-william-cook, accessed on 13 February 2025

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