Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - The nature and importance of early glass air pumps
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Simon Schaffer stands with an early ninteenth century air pump in Faraday's laboratory in the Royal Institution. He explains what it does and why it was so crucial in science, an indispensable tools from Boyle's time in experiments on air, fire and steam. Hence it was a necessary step towards the steam engine. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:19 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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