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 262
s isrepresented as in the next figure. This instrument ismade like a box inwhich is a piston, soconstructed that whenit is drawn out behind,the vacuum which it oc-casions in the box makesthe air rush in with greatimpetuosity through alateral opening, to whicha sucker [a valve] is af-fixed : and… … • China, its Customs, .\rts, &,c., translated from the French. Lon. 1824 ; vol. i. 17 Ciiap. 2.] Chinese Bellows in the Philadelphia Mitscum. 240 Cliiiiese bellows to the European one, he said it was more commodiousand efficient. It is employed to some extent in Java, having been intro-duced…
Pumping machinery
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