A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine (1876)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 115
No. 41. Swape from S. Munsters Coss-ography. 1550. The Swape was very common in France and the neighboring nation,on the Europenn continent, in tlie last and prececbng centuries. It isnamed bascule in France. The old Dirtionnaire de Trevoux, says : res bascues les plus simple, sont celles qui ne… … No. 42. Swape from Bcsson. 1568. nn des bouts Iiiutre haasse. Ccs soites cle b;isculos soiit les plus < omfiiunes; on sen sert pour clover des eaux. The last seiitnnce is heJievedlo be applicable to every part of Europe at the present time, peraap.Meuua.ly so as at any former period. We subjoin…
Pumping machinery
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