The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 254
eam-organ ; for, like the warning whistles of ourlocomotives, it was worked by the effects of the steam of boiling waterrushing into brass pipes. The water-organ was, in very early times, superseded by the pneumaticor wind-organ (Fig. 169), the description of which given by St. Jeromeagrees with… … Fig. 169.—Pneumatic Organ of the Fourth Century. (Sculpture of that date at Constantinople.) West, or at least into France. In 757, Constantine Copronymus, Emperorof the East, sent to King Pépin a number of presents, among which wasan organ that excited the admiration of the court. Charlemagne,…
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