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 233
ckers orupper boxes to descend at every stroke below the surface of the waterin the well; this it is observed, saves much trouble. The same remarkaccompanies an account of windmills for watering land [pumps drivenby them] in the old Dictionarum Rusticum. In the m.ines of Hungary pumps were early… … No. 88. Pump and Pistons fromAgriuola. cola, were similar to such as were used in some of the same mines hy the ancients, and have always formed part ofthe machinery for discharging water irornthem since the fall of the Moriuin empire.All that are figured in ihe De Re Metallica,are extremely…
Pumping machinery
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