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54 THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE.
to renew his acquaintance with the savans of the Royal
Society; but Boyle had died during the period which Pa-
pin had spent in Germany, and the unhappy and disheart-
ened inventor and philosopher died in 1810, without having
seen any one of his many devices and ingenious inventions
a practical success.
