A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 431
l seem to be. Let it be of transpa-rent glass that you may see the water running up : fill this with boilingwater, and when it is very hot, or setting the bottom of it to the fire thatit may not presentlie wax cold ; the mouth being turned downwards thatit may touch the water, it will suck it all… … 408 Raising Water by the Elasticity of Steam, from Porta. [Book IV That the same laborious experimenters were acquainted with the proper-ty of steam to displace liquids from close vessels is equally clear. Manyof their operations made them familiar with the fact that in this respect itseffects were…
Pumping machinery
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