A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 132
y occurred to the agricultural machinists of Asia . The advantages of such an arrangement being equally obvious as in the , tympanum . The means that naturally suggested themselves , of strengtli - ening a number of poles thus arranged , gradually brought these machines into the form of wheels .… … No . 47 . Noria . No . 48 . Chinese Noria . The Chinese make the noria , in what would seem to have been its pri mitive form ; and with an admirable degree of economy , simplicity , and skill . With the exception of the axle and two posts to Support it , the whole is of bamboo , and not a nail used…
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