A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 116
rst, into which others dip and convey it to the next one, and so to thehighest. In some, the gutters are worked by a combination of levers ; inothers, by ropes passing over pulleys at the highest part of the building andunited to a crank that is attached to a water wheel or other first mover a… … No. 32. Combination of Levers and Gutters. There is another modification of the jantu, by which water may beraised to great elevations. A number of gutters, open at both ends, arepermanently connected to, and over each other, in a zigzag direction, sothat while one end of the lowest dips in the…
Pumping machinery
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