A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 542
e subject of siphons than any other writer,Upwards of twenty problems in his Spiritalia relate to or are illustrratedby them ; and from him we learn that these instruments were in his timeemployed on a large scale in draining and irrigating land, viz. by transfer-ring water over hills from one… … ]>! No. 237. No. 233. No. 239. No. 240. The above figures are illustrations of the first, second, third, and thirtieth•oblems of Herons work. Chap. 6.] Liquids of different Specific Gravities. 519 No. 237 (the first figure in the Spiritalia) represents an ordinary siphonresting- over the handle…
Pumping machinery
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