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 382
uilding without any extralabor. Here circumstances led the workmen to the construction of a water-ram without knowing that such a machine had been previously devised. The first person who is known to have raised water by a ram, desifi^nedfor the purpose was, Mr. Wliitehurst, a watchmaker of Derby,… … PJo. 167. Whitehursti Wator-Ram. A represents the spring or reservoir, the surface of the water in whichwas i)f about the same level as the bottom of the cistern B. The Tsir. E)ipe from A to the cock at the end of C, was nearly six hundred feot mength, and one and a half inches bore. The cock was…
Pumping machinery
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