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 594
Institutions, Elianon Tactics, Frontinus on Strategems, and the Book of Modestus onMilitary Affairs ;—collated from Ancient coiWce^hx BfDKUS, the celebratedPrench critic. Attached to, and paged with Yegetius, are one; hundi-edand twenty folio illustrations, rudely executed on wood. They are coptes… … No. 288. Ancient Fi.litiug EolipUc. As not a word of explanation accompanies this sinc^ular figure, (noranv other in the book,) and little or nothing is to be found in Vegetiusor other Roman authors to aid us, all that we can offer must be receivedas conjecture. If the magnitude of tlie machine be…
Pumping machinery
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