A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 416
motto Lmsus Juvo . ( Vol . ii , 372 . ) The same device is also given in a treatise on Heroic Symbols , Antwerp , 1634 . Hence this ancient domes tic instrument was adopted on such occasions as well as the bellows , syringe , watering pot , & c . Rivius in commenting on the eolipiles mentioned by… … No . 181 . No . 182 . No . 183 . No . 184 . Rivius names them “ wind holders ” and “ fire blowers . ” He says they were made in various shapes and of different materials , and were used “ to blow the fire like a pair of bellows . ” Some , designed for other pur - poses , that will presently be…
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