A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 578
558 Ancient Bronze Gocks — Silver Pipes and Cocks . [ Book V . Tiberius at Capri , and preserved in the Museum at Naples , is not the least interesting . No . 273 is a figure of it . The plug has become by time immoveable , and having been shut … by the sketch . Had we an opportunity No . 273 . Ancient bronze cock . of examining it we would endeavor to ascertain its weight , dimensions , & c . — whether the substance of the plug and chamber are the same , and if the former is secured in the latter by slightly riveting its lower edge , as in…
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