A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 73
Europe . There is one near Hempstead , Eng . for the protection of which , an act of par - liament was passed in the reign of Henry VIII . Such wells , probably gave rise to the beautiful circular stairs so com mon in old towers , and still known , as ‘ well stairs . ’ In Galveston , ( Texas, ) and… … No . 8 . Modern Greek female drawing water . No . 9 . From a manuscript of the 12th Century . However old and numerous wells with stairs within them may be , most of the ancient ones were constructed without them ; hence the ne - cessity of some mode of raising the water . From the earliest ages ,…
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