A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 258
and its contents expelled by pressure. To suchHomer seems to allude in his account of Eolus assisting Ulysses: The adverse winds in leathern bags he braced, Compressed their force, and locked each struggling blast. Odys. 10. aAncient bronze tongs or forceps, similar to those in the cut, have been… … No. 100. Goldsmith of Hindostan Chap. 1.] Origin of the Valve.—African Bellows. 235 And Ovid: A largess to Ulysses he consigned, And in a steers tough hide enclosed a wind. Met. xiv. The goldsmiths bellows of Barbary consists of a goats skin, having areed inserted into it: he holds the reed with…
Pumping machinery
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