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 576
e modern ones.(See LArt dii Metiuisier, folio edit. 1770, PI. 69 ; Gells Po.Tipekna ; ADissertation on Phices of Retirement, Lond. 1751 ; Fryers Travels inIndia and Persia, Lond. 1698.) Devices for preventing the ascent of offensive vapors from siiiks, sewers,drains, &c. are named traps. As… … No. 279, No. 280. A A represent a floor or covering of a sink or sewer, and tlie object iato dischare refuse water or slops of any kind into the latter wilhr utallowino- currents of air to rise through the passage. No. 278 is a leadenpipe bent at one part into tlie form of a letter S, which part…
Pumping machinery
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