A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 173
s from the bottom of a well to the height to which the water is to be conveyed , brings up the water with it ; but these kind of engines being out of date , I shall pass over tbem . ” a Belidor has described one that was used in the ship yards and docks at Marseilles , which is represented in No .… … No . 66 . Old French Chain Pump . Such appears to have been the general construction of the chain pump m Europe , until an increasing intercourse with the Chinese led to the in - troduction of the machine as made by that people . The credit of this is , we believe , due to the Duteh . From the…
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![An illustration from Georgii Agricolae De re metallica : libri XII. Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia deni[que] ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis infertas, adiunctis latinis, germanicis [que] appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. ; Eiusdem De animantibus subterraneis liber, (1556)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-gri_000033125008455038-427-275.webp)
