A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 42
he house-hold utensils represented inEgyptian sculptures, remarks, we meet too with vessels of No. 4. Gourd, Cauldron, and Pipkin. tne P^cise form of modem saUCe- pans.e An interesting circum-stance is recorded in Roman history in connection with one of thesevessels. Marcus Curius Dentatus, who was… … Chap. 3.] Iron and Brasen Cauldrons. 19 remarkable for his frugality as his patriotism. During the time that he.swayed the destinies of his country, the ambassadors of the Samnites vi-sited him at his cottage, and found him boiling vegetables in an earthenpot or pipkin ; they attempted to bribe him…
Pumping machinery
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