A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 123
r towhich the bucket is suspended, appearsextremely short, but this is to be attri-buted to its defective representation.The following summary of ancient Brit-ish devices is from Fosbrokes Encyclo-pedia of Antiquities. The Anglo-Saxons had a wheel for drawing waterfrom wells. They were common… … No. 39. Anglo Saxon Swape. Rings werewith a 100 Old German Swapes. [Book I. buckets one at each end of a chain adapted to a versatile engine calledvolgolus. Buckets with iron hoops, and drawing water from deep wellsas a punishment. The swape appears to have been the principal ma-chine in England…
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