A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 71
erved, Dr. Hooke having found that the boiling-point wasa fixed temperature under the ordinary pressure of the at-mosphere, and the increase in temperature and pressure ofsteam when confined having been shown by Papin with hisDigester. 46 THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. Dents Papin was of a… … Denys Papin. given him at Paris, although he probably received his de-gree at Orleans. He settled in Paris in 1672, with theintention of practising his profession, and devoted all hisspare time, apparently, to the study of physics. Meantime, that distinguished philosopher, Huyghens,the inventor of…
Steam-engines
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