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 368
essure of the column in A will force up the piston, and with it .all thewater previously in the cylinder, which is thus compelled to ascendthrough the upper valve into the disdiarging pipe B. When this hastaken pac-e, the vessel Ci, susper.deil at one end of the rod that passesthrougli tlie shank… … Ct.a Imp-ovcd Pressure Engine from Belidor. tween C aiicl tlic lower part of A, upon which the piston descends in thecyliiHlei- and the foui water in C escapes through the lower end of A andruns to waste. By the time the piston reaches the bottom of the cylinder,the latter is refilled with water by…
Pumping machinery
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