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 250
which weie alternatelydilated with air and compressed, by an Arab slave who knelt abovethem. With the exception of their not being made of bulls hide but ofsheepskin, he observes they would completely suit the description of thebellows given by Virgil in the Fourth Georgic. Blacksmiths in Ceylonuse… … No. 10.J. Primitive IJcllows of Asia. Chap. l.J Ancient Egyptian Bellows-. 237 down the other. (See a figure in Davis history of that island, and alsoin the Register of Arts, vol. i, 300.) The (lome.itic bellows of Egypt ismade in the same way, and probaltly has always been so : to it, Job…
Pumping machinery
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