Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:Large: 7 x 5in held on a leash by

held on a leash by a woman from within the coach

Home of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

on his personal Gulf stream jet

A group of porters with their trolleys can be seen in the right hand corner

Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:Large: 7 x 5in held on a leash byPlate 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