A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 260
, which were alternatelydilated with air and compressed, by an Arab slave who knelt abovethem. With the exception of their not being made of bulls hide but ofsheepskin, he observes they would completely suit the description of thebellows given by Virgil in the Fourth Georgia Blacksmiths in… … No. 102. Primitive Bellows of Asia. Chap. 1.] Ancient Egyptian Bellows. 237 down the other. (See a figure in Davis history of that island, and alsoin the Register of Arts, vol. i, 300.) The domestic bellows of Egypt ismade in the same way, and probably has always been so : to it, Job mostlikely…
Pumping machinery
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