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 260
the bottom there are two iron funnels, and in the insideof each trunk a sucker furnished with ratha, which supplies the place oftow. The apprentice, whose business it is to use this machine, alternatelysinks one of the suckers wliile he raises the other.^ Similar implementsare also used in smelting… … No. 111. Pistou Bclluws uf .Madagascar. The furnace is described as a mere hole dug in the ground, lined withnide stonework and plastered with clay. It was filled with alternatelayers of charcoal and ore, and covered by a conical roof of clay, a smallopening being left at the apex. The bellows were…
Pumping machinery
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