Paper, 'On Dr Hale's method of distilling salt water' by Keane Fitzgerald

Reference number: L&P/3/218

Date: 1757

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Contains plate.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments on applying the Rev. Dr. Hales's method of distilling salt-water to the steam-engine'

Read 17 February 1757

Reference number: L&P/3/218
Earliest possible date: 1757
Physical description: Ink on paper and plate
Page extent: 7 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Keane Fitzgerald

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Keane Fitzgerald, Paper, 'On Dr Hale's method of distilling salt water' by Keane Fitzgerald, 1757, L&P/3/218, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_218/paper-on-dr-hales-method-of-distilling-salt-water-by-keane-fitzgerald, accessed on 14 July 2026

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X. Experiments on applying the Rev. Dr. Hales's method of distilling salt-water to the steam-engine External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1757

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1757.0011

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 3 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1755-1760 Reference number: L&P/3

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