A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 402
harge—having no necessary connection with the reservoir. The apparatus asa model, is figured just as philosophical instruments still are. Thus inmodern books, a pump (for example) is often shown as discharging waterinto the reservoir from which it raises it. We make these remarks be-cause some… … No. 173. Raising Water by the Sun. From Heron. Chap. 2.] Portas Natural Magic. 379 specimens from which others for practical purposes might be deduced.It is quite a common remark in old authors, after describing a device, toobserve that various machines for other purposes may be derived from it,and…
Pumping machinery
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