A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 325
that in Rome itself any curious piece of mechanism was , by way of eminence , named pwnic . An cient armies were also often employed in obtaining , raising and cutting off water ; the hydraulic engines of Ganymede nearly ruined Cassar and his army in Alexandria , Cyrus took Babylon by diverting the… … No . 141 . Egyptian Fire - Engine of the 2d Century beforo Christ , from Heron ’ s Spiritalia . That the idea of employing forcing pumps as fire - engines was not new m the time of Apollodorus or Vitruvius , we have conclusive evidence . Among the small nurnber of ancient writings that escaped…
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