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 582
56S APPENDIX. Fire-Engines and Bclloics Pu/njjs, pp. 241, 321. No. 284 is a belle waor fiictionless pump, from the first edition of Bales Mysteries of Natureand Art. It is identical with the fire engine referred to in our third book,except being placed within an open frame instead of a cistern… … No. 2c I. OIJ frictionless or bel.ows pump, A. I). 1C33, Wafer-W/nels, p. 282. There are indications in tlie Iliad that A^ulcanused water power, and that it was by the dextrous concealment of it andthe mechanism by which it was transmitted that enabled him to excite inso high a degree the…
Pumping machinery
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