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date: label: date made
content: 1796
label: date made
content: 1796-1801
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving image was prepared for vol. 1 of John Wilkes, ed., <i>Encyclopaedia Londinensis</i> (London, 1801). The text at bottom reads “Improved Air Pumps / London Published as the Act directs, Feby 20th 1796, by J. Wilkes” and “J. Pass sculp.” Fig. 1 shows Vreem’s modification of Hauksbee’s pump. Fig. 2 show’s Cuthbertson’s pump.
label: Description
content: Francis Hauksbee the elder (1660-1713) was a scientist in London who experimented with electrical machines and air pumps. Guillaume Vreem was an instrument maker in London who, in 1717, published an account of an improved form of Hauksbee’s air pump. John Cuthbertson
label: Description
content: Ref: T Brundtland, “From Medicine to Natural Philosophy: Francis Hauksbee’s Way to the Air Pump,” <i>British Journal for the History of Science</i> 41 (2008): 209-240.
label: Description
content: Guillaume Vreem, <i>Description de la machine du vuide: selon la maniere de feu Monsieur Hauksbee, avec quelques avantages que la sienne n'avoit pas</i> (1717).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330429
label: catalog number
content: 330429
label: accession number
content: 290491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 28.575 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 8 5/8 in; 28.2575 cm x 21.9075 cm