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 150
ndred feet of thegroi;nd. We therefore conclude that this famous engine %vas composedof at least two, and probably more, separate chains of pots; and even then,it might with as much propriety, be noticed by ancient authors as a sivghmachine, as that at Cairo still is, by all modern travelers.… … No. 57. Rope Pump. ihp.e IE another device that belongs to this chapter Every peisonkno^/s, that where water is dispersed over extended surfaces, and of too lim-itFj depth to allow the use of a vessel to scoop it up, various substancesare employed to absorb it, as sponge and woolen rags, and from…
Pumping machinery
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