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 232
ting press, they firstemerge into notice in modern times. The earliest representation of onewe have met with in print is in the German translation of Vegetius, on thesame page with No. 82, the bellows pump: No. 87, on next page, is a copy.It is square, made of plank and apparently designed to drain… … No. 67. A. D. ]..,!. of that instrument. It has no valve orclack, but appears to he a modi! cation ofthe one used in the old bilge punrjp, wliichwas sometimes compared to a gunnerssponge,* There are numerous proofs in oid au-thors, that pumps were common in wells inthe 15th century, since they are…
Pumping machinery
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