A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 136
buckets, must have early occurred to the agricultural machinists of Asia.The advantages of such an arrangement being equally obvious as in thetympanum. The means that naturally suggested themselves, of strength-ening a number of poles thus arranged, gradually brought these machinesinto the form of… … No. 48. Chinese Noria. No. 47. Noria. The Chinese make the noria, in what would seem to have been its pri-mitive form; and with an admirable degree of economy, simplicity, andskill. With the exception of the axle and two posts to support it, thewhole is of bamboo, and not a nail used in its…
Pumping machinery
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