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 436
ospheric pressurewas made ; a discovery whose influence, lilie that of theatmosphere itself, is felt more or less in every art and everyscience. It led in a very short time to a series of inventions of the highestvalue, among which the reciprocating steam-engine should probably beplaced. We mention… … No. 190. Kirclier.1641. » John Bute, who published a treatise on Fire-works in lfi35, was perhaps the compilerof this curious voiuine. StriUt. in his Sports and Pastimes of tlie People of F.ngland,quotes Bates book, but it would seem that the same cuts were not in both, for whenspeaking of boys…
Pumping machinery
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