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To show how damp or stale air might be drawn out from a coal-pit or any sort of mine, well or subterraneous cavern by an engine designed by Dr Desaguliers

Reference number: RBO/13/2

Date: 1727

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Also how fresh air might be conveyed into a particular part of a mine through several hollows which are full of stale air
That a working model of the machine had been made to the scale of an inch to a foot - the model consists of a triple crank working three pumps which suck and force air by means of three regulators
Outlines four experiments with comments
Read to the Royal Society on 18 May 1727

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RBO/13/2
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1727
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5 pages
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To show how damp or stale air might be drawn out from a coal-pit or any sort of mine, well or subterraneous cavern by an engine designed by Dr Desaguliers, 1727, RBO/13/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_2/to-show-how-damp-or-stale-air-might-be-drawn-out-from-a-coal-pit-or-any-sort-of-mine-well-or-subterraneous-cavern-by-an-engine-designed-by-dr-desaguliers, accessed on 18 January 2025

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