A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 270
n the bottom there are two iron funnels, and in the insideof each trunk a sucker furnished with raffia, which supplies the place oftow. The apprentice, whose business it is to use this machine, alternatelysinks one of the suckers while he raises the other.b Similar implementsare also used in… … No. 111. Piston Bellows of Madagascar. The furnace is described as a mere hole dug in the ground, lined withrude stonework and plastered with clay. It was filled with alternatelayers of charcoal and ore, and covered by a conical roof of clay, a smallopening being left at the apex. The bellows were…
Pumping machinery
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