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 258
t the slightest intima-tion of their being then of recent(late, they may safely be classedamong those inventions, the originof which is too remote to be dis-covered. No. 110 represents a person work-ing two of them to supply wind fora water organ, from Barbaros Vi-iruvlus, Venice, 1567. They are… … Chap. 2.] Piston Bellows of Mindanao. 245 The hlower, hy alternately raising one piston and depressing- the (.ther,pumped air into a large reservoir: this was an open vessel Invertedinto another containing water, and as the air accumulated in the tormer,the liquid was gradually displaced and rose…
Pumping machinery
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