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SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS AT HOME
Having concluded his studies abroad, Emanuel returned to the paternal home at Brunsbo in 1715. Then his father, in accordance with the custom of the times, made application to Government to give him employment. Meanwhile Emanuel makes preparation for the scientific periodical he had projected and seeks to bring into service some of his inventions, of which he writes to Benzelius—
"I looked very carefully for the machines which I some time ago sent to my father; they were eight in number, but I was unable to discover the place in which he had laid them aside. He thinks they have been sent to you, which I hope with all my heart; for it cost me a great amount of work to put them on paper, and I shall not have any time during the next winter to do this over again. There were, First, three drawings and plans for water-pumps, by which a large quantity of water can be raised in a short time
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