A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 86
atus,and one which naturally led to the development of that great machine, inwhich terminated all the improvements of the older mechanics on theprimitive cord and bucket—and to which, modern ingenuity has added—nothing—viz: the endless chain of pots-—indeed nothing more wasthen wanting, but to… … No. 13. Ancient.[From sepulchral monuments.] No. 14. Modern. The Anglo Saxons used two buckets hooped with iron, one at eachend of a chain which passed over a pulley.a And in the old Normancastles, water was raised by the same means. In one of the keeps or towers,still remaining, which was built by…
Pumping machinery
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