A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 265
ms and deoorations exquisitely chaste , others are bizarre and some are obscene . There is one of bronze on which an individual is represented . blowing the Harne with his mouth , as in the act of kindling a fire ; and in another the artist has introduced , as an appropriate embellish - ment , a… … No . 108 . Bellows figured on a Roman Lamp . No . 109 . Bellows Forcing Pump ? from Kireher . An example of the application of such bellows as atmospheric pumps has already been given , page 207 . The adjoining figure ( No . 109 ) is copied from Kircher ’ s Mundus Subterraneus , tom . i . , p . 230…
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