An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships ... : with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: and the relation given thereof by Dr. Mead, to the Royal Society / By Samuel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Samuel.
Date:
1745
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships ... : with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: and the relation given thereof by Dr. Mead, to the Royal Society / By Samuel Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his Abilities, I went diredtly to his Houle, fhewed him Sir Charles's Letter, and, by his Appointment, the next Morning came thither again, where I met the learned Martin Folkes, Efq; Prefident of the Royal Society, whom the Do&or had de¬ fied to talk with me, together with him- felf, upon my Propofal. They both ex- prefled their Approbation of it, and moft readily offered to do whatever was in their Power, to encourage an Invention which they judged mu ft be of great Service to the Publick. Accordingly Dr Mead im¬ mediately waited on the Lords of the Admiralty, and reprefented to them, in a ftrong Manner, the Advantage of fuch a Contrivance: Whereupon, they were pleafed to order, that it fhould be tried, as foon as poffible, on Board any of His Majefty’s Ships in the River. Being now left at my own Liberty, to chufe a proper Place for my Experi¬ ment, I fixed upon the Hulk at Dept¬ ford, becaufe that was immovable, and could not, like a Ship, be lent away: And