A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 101
dapted to the power em-ployed, whether of men or animals; and an alternating rotary movementimparted to it, as in the common wheel or capstan, represented in the nextfigure, No. 26. It appears from Belidor, (Torn, ii, 333) that machines of thiskind, and worked by men were common in Europe previous… … No. 26. Common Wheel or Capstan. Circumstances, highly illustrative of European manners during theearly part of the 17th and preceding centuries, are associated with the in-troduction of table-forks. They were partially known in Italy in the 11thcentury, for in a letter of Peter Damiani, who died…
Pumping machinery
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