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 341
nd thus the course of the water, which issues by the jet, isalways entertained in the same stau,-. The box or chest had two pro-jecting pieces on each side, through which two staves were passed for theconvenience of carrying it. This small engine appears to have been inevery respect an effective… … No. 147. View and Section of a Fire engine with Air Vessel. A. D. 1675. One might suppose that when this account of the construction and ef-fects of air chambers was published to the world, and in the standardiournals of France and England, that they would speedily have beenadopted in fire-engines…
Pumping machinery
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