Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:XL: 120 x 100cm LONDON' Burch was a professor

LONDON' Burch was a professor of physics at the University of Reading between 1891 and 1892

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Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:XL: 120 x 100cm LONDON' Burch was a professorPlate illustrates pp. 17 18, 'The Description of the Machine for giving a swift Motion to Bodies in Vacuo, without admitting the External Air', and shows Hauksbee's air pump connected to a wheel mechanism which imparts a rapid rotation speed to a spindle within the glass dome of the air pump. Plate II from Physico mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October