A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 272
isrepresented as in the next figure.a This instrument ismade like a box inwhich is a piston, soconstructed that whenit is drawn out behind,the vacuum which it oc-casions in the box makesthe air rush in with greatimpetuosity through alateral opening, to whicha sucker [a valve] is af-fixed : and when… … * China, its Customs, Arts, &c, translated from the French. Lon. 1824 ; vol. i. 17. Chap. 2.] Chinese Bellows in the Philadelphia Museum. 249 Chinese bellows to the European one, he said it was more commodiousand efficient.5 It is employed to some extent in Java, having been intro-duced from…
Pumping machinery
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