A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 586
with the modern ones.(See LArt du Menuisier, folio edit. 1770, PL 69 ; Gells Pompeiana; ADissertation on Places of Retirement, Lond. 1751 ; Fryers Travels inIndia and Persia, Lond. 1698.) Devices for preventing the ascent of offensive vapors from sinks, sewers,drains, &c. are named traps. As… … No. 278. No. 279. No. 280. No. 281. A A represent a floor or covering of a sink or sewer, and the object isto discharge refuse water or slops of any kind into the latter withoutallowing currents of air to rise through the passage. No. 278 is a leadenpipe bent at one part into the form of a letter…
Pumping machinery
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