A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 500
of the funnel,and also through the holes in the upper part of C.As the liquid dashes against the stone, the air sepa-rates and rises to the top of the vessel, whence it isforced by successive volumes through B to the fire,while the water collects at the bottom and is let offby a regulating valve or… … Chap. 1.] Gulf Stream. 477 The trombe is of considerable antiquity. It was known to Heron, andis referred to in Plinys Natural History. Kircher has given several figuresof it. See torn, i, 203, of his Mundus Subterraneus, and torn, ii, pp. 310.347, of his Musurgia Universalis; in which last work he…
Pumping machinery
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