A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 267
e manyare in their forms and decorations exquisitely chaste, others are bizarreand «ome are obscene. There is one of bronze on which an individual isrepresented blowing the flame with his mouth, as in the act of kindling afire ; and in another the artist has introduced, as an appropriate… … 103. Bellows figured on a Roman Lamp. No. 109. Bellows Forcing Pumps fiom Kircher. An example of the application of such bellows as atmospheric pumpshas already been given, page*207. The adjoining figure (No. 109) is copiedfrom Kirchers Mundus Subterraneus, torn, i., p. 230, Amsterdam, 1665 :it…
Pumping machinery
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