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 333
small one in hisnative city (Konigshofen) forty years before, consequently about 1617.We are not informed by either the professor or Jesuit of tlie particularconstruction of this small engine, but there is a book extant tliat was published in 1615, which contains a figure and description of a… … No. 144 German Pump Engine from Decaus. A. U. IC15. This machine is named A rare and necessary Engin, by which youmay give great reliefe to houses that are on fire : we give the whole ofthe explanation : This engin \z inncJi j)racticed in German)/, and it hathbeen seen what great and ready help it…
Pumping machinery
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