A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 230
terials have not been confined towood and the metals, for pumps have been made of glass, stoneware,stone, leather, canvas, and caoutchouc. Some have been constructed like aIn Shakespeares time, every guest carried his own knife, which he occasionallywhetted on a stone that hung behind the door. One… … a bag, resembling the old powder-puff or the modern accordion; others inthe form of the domestic and blacksmiths bellows—some in the figureof a drum, and others as a portion of one—as a simple horizontal tubesuspended at the centre on a perpendicular one, and whirled round likethe arms of a potters…
Pumping machinery
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