A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 567
Chap . 8 . Water - Clock of Ctcsibius — Hydraulic Organs . 547 hours the tube would be filled , and the figure near the top of the column . It was then that the siphon came into play . Its short leg , as represented in the cut , was connected to the lower part - … No . 272 . Clepsydra by Ctesibius . in Ozanam ’ s Recreations , p . 388 . Hour - glasses were formerly placed in coffins and buried with the corpse , probably as Symbols of mortality — the sands of life having run out . See Gent . Mag . vol . xvi , 646 , and xvii , 264 . Lamps found in ancient se -…
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