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 532
subject of siphons than any other writer,Upwards of twenty problems in his Spiritalia relate to or are illustrratedby them ; and from him we learn that these instruments were in his timeemployed on a large scale in draining and irrigating land, viz. by transfer-ring water over hills from one valley… … No. 238. The above figures are illustrations of the first, second, third, and thirtiethproblems of Herons work Chap. 6.] Liquids of different Specific Gramties. 519 No. 237 (tlic first fio^ure in the SpiiitJilia) represents an ordinary biplionresting over the liandle of a vase, within wliicti the…
Pumping machinery
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