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 376
e(juently to pierce the hats, like pistol bullets. This mode of pro-ducing ice was known to the marquis of Worcester, who refers to it in theeighteenth proposition of hisCentury of Inventions, relating to an artifi-cial fouTitain, holding great (juantlty of wafer, and of force svfjic:ent tomake… … No. 164. Pressure Engine at Chtp. 9.j IVirtzs Tump. SSi to the sliauks of the cocks, wliich they opened aiid shut in the same man-uer as sliown in No. J GO. A similar conti;vance may be seen in severalold aulhors^—it is in the Spiritalia: Decaus, Fludd, Moxon and Swilzerhave all given figures of…
Pumping machinery
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