A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 119
ne above another. AtEsne, he saw twenty-seven Arabs on one tier of stages, working fourteen aG< ande Description. E. M. Tom. ii. Memoirs, Part 2, p. 780. Chap. 13.] Ancient Egyptian Swape. 95 double swapes, i. e. two on each frame, the bucket of one descending asthe other rises. They were… … E^ No. 35. Modern Egyptians using the Swape. [t is impossible to pass up the Nile in certain states of the river, withoutbeing surprised at the myriads of these levers, and at their unceasing move-ments; for by relays of men, they are often worked without intermission,both night and day. In Upper…
Pumping machinery
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