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Description: Huyghens' Engine, published in 1682 by Hautefeuille, referring to an experiment which had been made at the Royal Academy for raising solid bodies by means of gunpowder. He gives a description of the above apparatus, and states that he was assured that a dram of gunpowder, in a cylinder seven or eight feet high and fifteen or eighteen inches in diameter, and raised into the air seven or eight boys who held the end of the rope; and that it had in like manner raised from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds' weight.
Title: Huyghens Engine
Credit: Galloway, Robert Lindsay (1881) The Steam Engine and Its Inventors: A Historical Sketch, London: Macmillan and Co., p. 24
Author: Jean de Hautefeuille (1647-1724) in Hautefeuille, Jean de (1682) Reflexions sur quelques machines a élever les eaux, avec la description d'une nouvelle pompe, sans frotement & sans piston, & le moyen de faire des jets d'eau de la derniere hauteur, sans avoir besoin de reservoirs élevez. A son altesse madame la duchesse de Boüillon, p. 9
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