A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 137
has placed them on the paddles or floats of an undershot wheel,like Barbaro, except that the latter makes the bottom of the boxes orbuckets serve at the same time as paddles to receive the impulse of thestream. Rivius, in his German Translation, (Nuremburgh 1548,) has givenone figure resembling an… … No. 49. Egyptian Noria. Instead of pots or other vessels secured to the arms by ligatures, orbuckets attached to the sides of a wheel, as described by Vitruvius, theperiphery of the wheel itself is made hollow, and is divided into a numberof cells, or compartments, which answer the same purpose as…
Pumping machinery
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