A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 96
whose suspicious natures nurse queasy appetites , that the haunch has not been pawed by the turn spit , in the absence of the housewife ’ s eyes , for the pleasure of licking his unclean fingers . ” This evil propensity of human turnspits , however , eventually led to their dismissal , and to the… … No . 25 . Horizontal Tread - Wheel , from Agricola . Horizontal tread - wheels for raising water are described by Agricola , from whose work , De Re Metallica , we have copied the figure . Two men on opposite sides of a horizontal bar , against which they lean , push with their feet the bars of the…
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