A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 177
ther pipe, which reaches from the bottom of a well to the heightto which the water h to be conveyed, brings up the water with it; butthese kini of engines being out of date, I shall pass over them.a Belidorhas described one that was used in the ship yards and docks at Marseilles,which is… … No. 66. Old French Chain Pump. Such appears to have been the general construction of the chain pumpin Europe, until an increasing intercourse with the Chinese led to the in-troduction of the machine as made by that people. The credit of thisis, we believe, due to the Dutch. From the peculiar…
Pumping machinery
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