A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 329
ul, so much so, that in Rome itself anycurious piece of mechanism was, by way of eminence, named punic. An-cient armies were also often employed in obtaining, raising and cutting offwater ; the hydraulic engines of Ganymede nearly ruined Csesar and hisarmy in Alexandria, Cyrus took Babylon by… … No. 141. Egyptian Fire-Engine of the 2d century before Christ, from Herons Spiritalia. That the idea of employing forcing pumps as fire-engines was not newin the time of Apollodorus or Vitruvius, we have conclusive evidence.Among the small number of ancient writings that escaped destruction inthose…
Pumping machinery
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