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
hadoof was used inthe times of the Pharaohs, anda proof that such was the fact,has recently been furnished byMr. Wilkinson, (Vol. ii, 5,) whofound the remains of one in anancient tomb at Thebes ; in ad-dition to which they are repre-sented in sculptures which datefrom 1532 to 1550 B. C. a peri-od… … % Swape used by the Romans. [Book I. It appears to have formed one of a series, designed to raise water oveithe elevation feebly portrayed in the back ground, in precisely the sameway that is now common in Egypt and in the east, and as shown in No. 35.The remark of a traveler that a Chinese seemed…
Pumping machinery
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