Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, containing an account of several surprizing phaenomena touching light and electricity. Producible on the attrition of bodies. With many other remarkable appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the explanations of all the machines, (the figures of which are curiously engrav'd on copper) and other apparatus us'd in making the experiments / By F. Hauksbee, F.R.S.

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Photograph of an illustration of Hauksbee's air pump reproduced from Hauksbee, Francis: <i>Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects, containing an account of several surprizing phaenomena touching light and electricity…</i>, London : Printed by R. Brugis, for the author, 1709.

M0012971: Illustration of Hauksbee's air pump

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