A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 85
ntical mode adopted, and likeother devices of the ancients, it is still continued by their descendants inAfrica and Asia. Its value in the estimation of the moderns, may belearned from the fact, that it is adopted in this and other cities for raisingcoals, &c. from the holds of ships ; for… … No. 12. Ancient and Modern method of raising water in Asia. This was probably one of the first operations, and certainly one of themost obvious, where human labor was superseded by that of animals, andin accomplishing it, the pulley itself was perhaps discovered. This modeis common in Egypt,…
Pumping machinery
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