A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 344
me it is well for the World that these attempts have not succeeded ; for how should we seize malefactors ! They would fly over the walls of towns like Apelles Vocales , who they teil us saved himself by flying over the walls of Nuremberg , and the print of whose feet is there shown to strangers to… … No . 145 . Fire - eugine belonging to Strasbourg , A . D . 1739 . For nearly a hundred years after the date of Hautsch ’ s engine those used throughout Europe , with the exception perhaps of a few cities in Germany , were very similar to those described by Belidor , as employed in France in his…
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