A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 162
No. 59. Roman Screw. Another mode was to make the threads of plank, arranged as a helixound a solid cylinder, which was fitted with journals, and made torevolve in ajixed hollow cylinder of the same length; the edges or ex-tremities of the threads rubbing against the sides of the latter, and…
Pumping machinery
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