Denis Papin demonstrates the principle of the combustion and explosion engine displacing a piston by heating a metal cylinder emptied of air and filled with gunpowder. Denis Papin, 1647 – c. 1713. French physicist, mathematician and inventor. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published 1870.

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