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'Mr Papin about using gunpowder to raise weights'

Reference number: RBO/7/18

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Also discussing the pump exhausted of air by means of gunpowder
Read to the Royal Society on 26 October 1687

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RBO/7/18
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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'Mr Papin about using gunpowder to raise weights', RBO/7/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_7_18/mr-papin-about-using-gunpowder-to-raise-weights, accessed on 15 May 2025

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