A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 83
culaneum or Pompeii. Nor does itappear to have been employed to any great extentby the Greeks; for with them, a vessel by which to draw water, was asnecessary a utensil to their mendicants, as to the modern pilgrims and fa-kirs of Asia. The poorest of beggars, Aristophanes Telepheus, had astaff, a… … 60 Pulley and Bucket. [Book I. the case had the pulley been used. If such had been the custom, nei-ther the mendicant Telepheus, nor Diogenes the philosopher, would havecarried about with them, vessels for the purpose. It is not easy to account for the partial rejection of the pulley by theGreeks…
Pumping machinery
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