Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 636
ed up the rising pipe, and the void behind the piston is again filled by waterfrom the reservoir into which the lower pipe is inserted. This machine was originally designed,like most rotary pumps, for a steam-engine ; and it is almost unique in the number of times that ithas been reinvented. In…
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