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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/4/11.

Subject: Chemistry / Scientific instruments

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

Written by Austin in Woodville. Read 11 March 1813.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/7/20
Earliest possible date
05 December 1811
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
12 pages
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Manuscript

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Gilbert Austin

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Gilbert Austin, Paper, 'On a new construction of a condenser and air pump' by the Rev Gilbert Austin in a letter to Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 05 December 1811, PT/7/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_20/paper-on-a-new-construction-of-a-condenser-and-air-pump-by-the-rev-gilbert-austin-in-a-letter-to-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 16 April 2026

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