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 127
m on the paddles or floats of an undecshot wheel,like Barbaro, except ti.at the latter makes the bottom of the boxes orbuckets serve a. the &arr.<-. time as paddles to receive the impulse of the?t:oam. Rivlus, in his German Translation, (Nuremburgh 1548,) has givenone figure resembling an… … No. 49. Egyptian Xoria. nstead of pots or other vessels secured to the arms by ligatures, oibuckets attached to the sides of a wheel, as described by Vitruvius, theperiphery of the wheel itself is made hollow, and is divided into a numberof cells, or compartments, which answer the same purpose as…
Pumping machinery
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