A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 82
ne which naturally led to the development of that great machine , in which terminated all the improvements of the older meehanies on the primitive cord and bücket — and to which , modern ingenuity has added — nothing — viz : the endless chain op pots — indeed nothing more was then wanting , but to… … No . 13 . Ancient . No . 14 . Modern . [ From sepulchral monuments . ] The Anglo Saxons used two buckets hooped with iron , one - at each end of a chain which passed over a pulley . 3 And in the old Norman castles , water was raised by the same means . In one of the keeps or towers , still…
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