A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water
Thomas Ewbank's 1850 survey of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, published in New York by Bangs, Platt & Co. for engineers, mechanics and inventors tracing pump design from antiquity onward. The wood engravings are small cutaway diagrams of pumps, siphons, water wheels, boilers and cisterns, cross-hatched to show water levels and section cuts, with lettered reference keys; useful for line-art machine parts, hatching textures and flowing-water motifs.
