A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 160
e hundred feet of theground. We therefore conclude that this famous engine was composedof at least two, and probably more, separate chains of pots; and even then,it might with as much propriety, be noticed by ancient authors as a singlemachine, as that at Cairo still is, by all modern travelers.… … No. 57. Rope Pump. There is another device that belongs to this chapter. Every personknows, that where water is dispersed over extended surfaces, and of too lim-ited depth to allow the use of a vessel to scoop it up, various substancesare employed to absorb it, as sponge and woolen rags, and from…
Pumping machinery
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