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Paper, 'Further experiments for increasing the quantity of steam in a fire-engine' by Keane Fitzgerald

Reference number: L&P/3/267

Date: 1757

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Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Farther experiments for increasing the quantity of steam in a fire-engine'

Read 24 November 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/267
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1757
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Keane Fitzgerald

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Keane Fitzgerald, Paper, 'Further experiments for increasing the quantity of steam in a fire-engine' by Keane Fitzgerald, 1757, L&P/3/267, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_267/paper-further-experiments-for-increasing-the-quantity-of-steam-in-a-fire-engine-by-keane-fitzgerald, accessed on 19 July 2026

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