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 281
had made in hydra:lics : tne %vhole appears to have been of themost durable mat arias, and of the best workmanship. Although the fieureaof this and other machines which Vitruvius inserted in his work are lost,there is little difficulty in realizing its construction from the text. Trausid Chap. 3.]… … No 121. Machiue of Ctesibiu^. T lie ovilnders are sectired in a frame of timber, and the piston rods areetached by joints to levers, one end of which are depressed by cams :^ii■le axis of tne wheel, ac shown above and also at No. 89. Barbaro hasr!gjred a crank at the axis which gives a…
Pumping machinery
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