A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 392
e building without any extralabor. Here circumstances led the workmen to the construction of a water-ram without knowing that such a machine had been previously devised. The first person who is known to have raised water by a ram, designedfor the purpose was, Mr. Whitehurst, a watchmaker of Derby,… … No. 167. Whitehursts Water-Ram. A, represents the spring or reservoir, the surface of the water in whichwas of about the same level as the bottom of the cistern B. The mainpipe from A to the cock at the end of C, was nearly six hundred feet inlength, and one and a half inches bore. The cock was…
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