Excerpt from The South Devon Atmospheric Railway: Preceded by Certain Remarks on the Transmission of Energy by a Partially Rarefied Atmosphere Leaving out of consideration Savery's and such like machines for the raising of water by means of a partial vacuum produced by the condensation of steam the first suggestion, so far as the writer is aware, for transmitting energy by the rarefaction of air, was made by Denis Papin, who, in 1695, published in Cassel a book called Recueil de diverses pieces touchant quelques nouvelles ...
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Excerpt from The South Devon Atmospheric Railway: Preceded by Certain Remarks on the Transmission of Energy by a Partially Rarefied Atmosphere Leaving out of consideration Savery's and such like machines for the raising of water by means of a partial vacuum produced by the condensation of steam the first suggestion, so far as the writer is aware, for transmitting energy by the rarefaction of air, was made by Denis Papin, who, in 1695, published in Cassel a book called Recueil de diverses pieces touchant quelques nouvelles machines, where, at page 36, is to be found the description of the drawing, Fig. 1, page 300. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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