Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:XL: 120 x 100cm A satire relating to the

A satire relating to the general election of 1806

plate I of The Harlot's Progress

15th September 1969

seen from the Foreign Office courtyard

Francis Hauksbee's air pump Size:XL: 120 x 100cm A satire relating to thePlate illustrates pp. 17 18, 'The Description of the Machine for giving a swift Motion to Bodies in Vacuo, without admitting the External Air', and shows Hauksbee's air pump connected to a wheel mechanism which imparts a rapid rotation speed to a spindle within the glass dome of the air pump. Plate II from Physico mechanical experiments on various subjects, by Francis Hauksbee (London, 1709), presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October