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 329
. The oldest sketch of a complete set of apparatus for extinguishing fir^that we have seen, is in a cut representing the interior of a laboratory orsmelling furnace, in the De Re Metallica of Agrlcola, page 308. Theimplements are, a syringe, a sledge hammer, two fire hooks a.nd threeleathern… … ilT d T and sultsequcnt authors, ror is this surprising since tliey form a very smaland obscure part of the original engraving. We noticed the latter severallimes before observing thenn. The syringe was made of brass ; it is de-signated siphunt-ulus ori-di ulceus, cujus vsfis est inincendiis. In…
Pumping machinery
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