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 126
, must have early occurred to the agricultural machinists of Asia.The advantages of such an arrangement being equally obvious as in thetympanum. The m(;ans that naturally suggested themselves, of stren>j(h-ening a number of poles thus arranged, gradually brought these machinedinto the form of… … No. 48. Chinese Noria. No, 47. Nona. The Chinese make the noria, in Avhat would seem to have been its pri-mitive form; and with an admirable degree of economy, simplicity, aldskill. With the exception of the axle and two posts to support it, thewhole is of bamboo, and not a nail used in its…
Pumping machinery
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