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 591
limbs. It is but one among many ofits kind which might be adduced, had we thehistory of numerous bronze images extant, orjf others noticed in antiquarian works. Seve-lal have openings behind and fitted for plugs, no. 287. Aociem Eolipilic idol.as if designed for charging them with liquids. There is… … 578 Cydojys.—Fighting Eolijjiles. ther on fire-breathing and other mythic monsters were not all mere VJsions, mystic emhlems, or hieruglyphical pictures, but actual brazen be-ings, of the torms and with many of the functions described—in otherwords, EoUpilic idols, personified as all idols were.…
Pumping machinery
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