A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 243
uckers or upper boxes to descend at every stroke below the surface of the waterin the well; this it is observed, saves much trouble. The same remarkaccompanies an account of windmills for watering land [pumps drivenby them] in the old Dictionarum Rusticum. In the mines of Hungary pumps were early… … No. 88. Pump and Pistons fromAgricola. cola, were similar to such as were used in some of the same mines by the ancients, and have always formed part ofthe machinery for discharging water fromthem since the fall of the Roman empire.All that are figured in the De Re Metallica,are extremely simple,…
Pumping machinery
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