A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 125
No. 41. Swape from S. Munster8 Cosmography. 1550. The Swape was very common in France and the neighboring nationson the European continent, in the last and preceding centuries. It isnamed bascule in France. The old Dictionnairc de Treuoux, says : Les bascules les plus simple, sont celles qui ne… … No. 42. Swape from Besson. 1568. un des bouts lautre hausse. Ces sortes de bascules sont les plus com-munes; on sen sert pour elever des eaux. The last sentence is believedto be applicable to every part of Europe at the present time, perhapsequally so as at any former period. We subjoin a…
Pumping machinery
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