A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 92
and raising of water from them, as among the first uses to which it,as well as the pulley, was applied. The windlass possesses an importantadvantage over the single pulley in lifting weights, or overcoming anyresistance; since the intensity of the force transmitted through it, canbe modified,… … No. 18. Windlass. From Kirchers Mundus Subterraneus. The buckets are suspended from opposite sides of the roller, the ropewinding round it in different directions, so that, as one ascends, the otherdescends. Pliny, in his Natural History, xix, 4, mentions this machine asused by the Romans for…
Pumping machinery
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