A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 172
[ Book I . Chain Pump frorn Agricola . 152 became known as ‘ ■ Paternoster pumps . ’ For the same reason they are named Chapelet by the French , in common with the chain of pots . … No . 65 . Chain Pump from Agricola . The next author who describes these pumps , that has fallen in our way , is Bessern . Plate 50 , of his ‘ Theatre Des Instrumens, ’ is a representation of a double one . Two cylinders are placed parallel to each other , so that the chain passes through both . It…
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