A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 119
99 Anglo Saxon Swape . Chap . 13 . ] ment has rendered his name notorious . In the foreground is represented the following figure of the swape , a machine which the writer observes , “ forms a conspicuous object … debted tomyfriend William No . 38 . Swape in Asia Minor . Everdell , Esq . who , be - sides other contributions to this work , undertook the task , to him a novel one , of engraving them . ] The swape has probably been in continual use in Great Britain , from the period of its subjugation by the…
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