Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:Large: 7 x 5in his sword on the floor

his sword on the floor

Home of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

and figures walking alongside the river in the foreground

on his personal Gulf stream jet

Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:Large: 7 x 5in his sword on the floorPlate illustrates Hauksbee's introduction (pp. 1 4) to his book, entitled 'A General Description of the Air Pump made use of in the following Experiments'. Plate I from Physico mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709. Hauksbee (ca. 1660 1713) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705, and was the Society's Curator of Experiments from 1703 to