A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 316
No. 139. No. 140. Belidor has described a similar pump in the first volume of his Arch.Hydraul. 379. The case is a larger portion of a circle than that of No.139, and the piston is furnished with a valve. A pump on the same prin-ciple was adopted by Bramah as a fire-engine in 1793 : His was a…
Pumping machinery
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