Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 638
In tliese, I is a water-cistein beneath the tower. A is a jiipe from any competent Mowing apparatus,leading into a hollow annular ring-chamber b, the bottom of which is to be supported in any propermanner above the cistern I; the inner face forms a portion of the passage for the descending shot;…
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