Title
Papin experimenting his powder engine in front of the professors of Marburg University.
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Papin experimenting his powder engine in front of the professors of Marburg University.
Most of the researches of French inventor Denis Papin (1647-1714) aimed at creating the steam engine. Before being able to develop a protoype of this engine, he decided to substitute steam for powder.
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INV02016_027
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