A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 90
of the leverE comes down again into its horizontal situation, and striking upon theend I of the loaded lever I K, raises the weight K, by which means theforce of its blow is broken. If the distance A B or fall of the water beabout six feet, this machine will raise the water into the cistern M… … No. 17. Gaining and Losing Buckets. Someyears ago, Dr. Desaguliers continues, a gentleman showed mea model of such an engine varying something from this, but so con-trived as to stop the running of the water at A A, when the lever D Ebegan to move. He told me he had set up an engine in Ireland,…
Pumping machinery
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