A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 239
with them; indeedno other kind appears to have been used by old European navigators.From the importance of efficient machines to raise water from ships, itmay reasonably be supposed that if any nation had possession of a supe-rior one, it would soon have been adopted by the rest; but there is… … No. 85. SailorsPortable Pump. No. 86. LiquorPump. a Epitome of Philosophy, Lon. 1823, p. 199. b Journal of the Franklin Instistate, vol. ix, 235. cLardners Arts of the Greeks and Romans, vol. i, 350. dIrrings Columbus, vol. ii, 127. ^16 Pumps in American Ships. [Book II. of Magalhanes fleet, put…
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