A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 343
a small one in hisnative city (Konigshofen) forty years before, consequently about *1617.We are not informed by either the professor or Jesuit pf the particularconstruction of this small engine, but there is a book extant that was pub-lished m 1615, which contains a figure and description of a… … No. 144. German Pump Engine from Decaus. A. D. 1615. This machine is named A rare and necessary Engin, by which yonmay give great reliefe to houses that are on fire : we give the whole ofthe explanation : This engin is much practiced in Germany, and it hathbeen seen what great and ready help it may…
Pumping machinery
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