A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 81
ted , and like other devices of the ancients , it is still continued by their descendants in Africa and Asia . Its value in the estimation of the moderns , may be learned from the fact , that it is adopted in this and other cities for raisin g coals , & c . from the holds of ships ; for which and… … No . 12 . Ancient and Modern method of raising water in Asia . This was probably one of the first operations , and certamly one of the most obvious , where human labor was superseded by that of animals , and in accomplishing it , the pulley itself was perhaps discovered . This mode is common in…
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