A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 604
and Institutions, Elianon Tactics, Frontinus on Strategems, and the Book of Modestus onMilitary Affairs :—collated from Ancient codices by Budeus, the celebratedFrench critic. Attached to, and paged with Vegetius, are one hundredand twenty folio illustrations, rudely executed on wood. They are… … No. 288. Ancient Fighting Eolipile. As not a word of explanation accompanies this singular figure, (notany other in the book,) and little or nothing is to be found in Vegetiusor other Roman authors to aid us, all that we can offer must be receivedas conjecture. If the magnitude of the machine be…
Pumping machinery
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