A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 291
s had made in hydraulics : the whole appears to have been of themost durable materials, and of the best workmanship. Although the figuresof this and other machines which Vitruvius inserted in his work are lost,there is little difficulty in realizing its construction from the text. Transla- Chap.… … No. 121. Machine of Ctesibius. The cylinders are secured in a frame of timber, and the piston rods areattached by joints to levers, one end of which are depressed by cams onthe axis of the wheel, as shown above and also at No. 89. Barbaro hasfigured a crank at the axis which gives a reciprocating…
Pumping machinery
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