A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 339
are, a syringe, a sledge hammer, two fire hooks and threeleathern buckets ; conveniently arranged against a wall. See the annexedillustration. These figures seem to have escaped the notice of Beckman a Devices Heroiques. A Lyon. 1577, page 50. Chap. 7.] From Agricola. 315 and subsequent authors,… … ori-chalceus, cujus usus est inincendiis. In these figureswe behold aU that waspreserved through themiddle ages of ancientfiremens machinery : theengine of Heron seems tohave been quite forgotten.Indeed the syringe itselfwas not generally used inEurope till late, for it wasnot till the close of…
Pumping machinery
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