A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 121
celeritythat the water never ceases running, and you can scarcely see the manmoving along his beam; yet he is sometimes at the height of twentyfeet, at others, touching the ground; and such is his confidence, that helaughs, sings, smokes, and eats in this apparently ticklish situation. Vol.V, p.… … Fryers Travels in India, 187. 13 98 The Swape in Arabia. [Book L treatise on Pneumatics. It is figured in most of the old authors, and wasmost likely, copied from the Picotah, and other oriental machines, whichhave been propelled in a similar manner from very remote times. SeeGregorys Median. Vol.…
Pumping machinery
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