A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 348
ne. In the mean time it is well for the world thatthese attempts have not succeeded; for how should we seize malefactors]They would fly over the walls of towns like Apelles Vocales, who theytell us saved himself by flying over the walls of Nuremberg, and the printof whose feet is there shown to… … No. 145. Fire-engine belonging to Strasbourg, A. D. 1739. For nearly a hundred years after the date of Hautschs engine thoseused throughout Europe, with the exception perhaps of a few cities inGermany, were very similar to those described by Belidor, as employedin France in his time. They consisted…
Pumping machinery
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