Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chaplin's Patent Distilling Apparatus with Steam Pump
Just because it doesn't have many google hits doesn't mean it isn't notable. It appears to cite a solid number of reliable sources, and unless there is something wrong that I'm not seeing it probably passes the .  Although Wikipedia is not an ideal setup to write papers with, there are tons of classes that use Wikipedia for some form of assignment and there is nothing wrong with that - the  encourages such and is explicitly endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. (Also, the link you provided to  PAPERS doesn't actually deal with this.. it just says WP is not a place to post OR or technical papers - and this doesn't appear to be one
— NONE, NONE
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:USPP||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Notability)