An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships ... : with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: and the relation given thereof by Dr. Mead, to the Royal Society / By Samuel Sutton.

  • Sutton, Samuel.
Date:
1745
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships ... : with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: and the relation given thereof by Dr. Mead, to the Royal Society / By Samuel Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/52 (page 16)
    'i v * Soon after my Return to London, 1 found Things in the utmoft Confufion, by the fudden Change of the Miniftry, which likewife occafioned a Change in the Admi¬ ralty. I petitioned however the Com- millioners of the Navy, humbly requeft- ing them to make a Report of what I had done, from Time to Time, from the loth of July, to the 10th of December, 1741, at Greenwich, Deptford, and Portfmouth, in Compliance with the Orders of the Lords of the Admiralty; in order that I might receive a fuitable Reward for my ufeful Invention, and reafonable Satisfac¬ tion for my Trouble, Lofs of Time, to the Negledl of my other Affairs, and Ex- pences in the Execution of the fame. But I received no Anfwer; nor to many Pe¬ titions I delivered to the Lords of the Admiralty themfelves, until at length, juftly moved at the cold and ungenerous Treat¬ ment I met with, I freely exprefled my Senfe of their ill Ufage, in the follow¬ ing Petition,