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 306
No. 139. Belidor has described a similar pump In the first volume of his Arch.Hydraul. 379. The case Is a larger portion of a circle than that of No.139, and the piston Is furnished with a valve. A pump on the same prm-ciple \vas adopted by Bramah as a fire-engine In 1793 : His was a shortcylinder,…
Pumping machinery
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