Article ID: CBB000071345

“Engines moved by fire and water”: The contribution of Fellows of the Royal Society to the development of steam power, 1675-1733 (1994-95)

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Description Focuses on the work of Denis Papin, Thomas Savery, and Jean Théophile Desaguliers.


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Authors & Contributors
Tann, Jennifer
Allen, J. S.
Andrew, James H.
Baillon, Jean-François
Buckland, J. S. P.
Ducheyne, Steffen
Journals
Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
History of Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire
Publishers
Continuum International Publishing Group
Concepts
Steam engines; steam turbines
Natural philosophy
Popularization
Newtonianism
Freemasonry
Fluid mechanics
People
Desaguliers, John Theophilus
Newton, Isaac
Papin, Denis
Savery, Thomas
Gravesande, Willem Jakob van's
Aleotti, Giovan Battista
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
19th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
London (England)
England
France
Bath (England)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal Botanical Society, London
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