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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