A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 592
No. 282. 568 APPENDIX. Fire-Engines and Bellows Pumps, pp. 241, 321. No. 284 is a bellowsor frictionless pump, from the first edition of Bates Mysteries of Natureand Art. It is identical with the fire engine referred to in our third book,except being placed within an open frame instead of a cistern… … No. 284. Old frictionless or bellows pump, A. D. 1633r Water- Wheels, p. 282. There are indications in the Iliad that Vulcanused water power, and that it was by the dextrous concealment of it andthe mechanism by which it was transmitted that enabled him to excite inso high a degree the astonishment…
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