A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 502
xperiment both air and water are moved by the current,and the pressure of the atmosphere excited to raise water as in the pipe of a pump. The cylindri-cal tube K (No. 200) wasconnected to a reservoirof water, D, the surfaceas before being 32^ inchesabove its orifice. The pipeK was 18 lines in… … No. 199. into a vessel, T, containing a colored liquid. a Floating substances have often been thrown into the Gulf Stream to ascertain itsdirection. Upwards of twenty years ago we cast overboard, near the Banks, a commonquart bottle carefully corked and sealed, and having a few inches of red…
Pumping machinery
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
