A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 582
number ofpipes that conveyed water to the houses, baths, fountains, &c. must havekept a great number of founders constantly at work in making and re-pairing them. We learn from Vitruvius that every main pipe that passedthrough the streets, had a large cock, by which the water was let in… … 558 Ancient Bronze Cocks—Silver Pipes and Cocks. [Book V. Tiberius at Capri, and preserved in the Museum at Naples, is not theleast interesting. No. 273 is a figure of it. The plug has become by time immoveable, and having been shutwhen last used, the water within it isstill confined. This is made…
Pumping machinery
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