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Drawings, new condenser and air pump by [Gilbert Austin]

Reference number: PT/73/4/11

Date: 1811?

Description

Plates 13-14 containing eight figures distributed over three pages showing the overall construction and several details of vessels, tubes, collars and joints. The sketches are inscribed above with publication and plate details. There is a brief note on page 2, 'Figure 5 at (a b c) is much too large but I have not time to correct or improve it'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermark '1807'.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a new construction of a condenser and air-pump. In a letter to Sir Humphry Davy, LL .D. F. R. S' by Gilbert Austin.

Read to the Royal Society on 11 March 1813.

Reference number
PT/73/4/11
Earliest possible date
1811?
Physical description
Pencil and ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Drawing
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Gilbert Austin

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Gilbert Austin, Drawings, new condenser and air pump by [Gilbert Austin], 1811?, PT/73/4/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_4_11/drawings-new-condenser-and-air-pump-by-gilbert-austin, accessed on 19 May 2026

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