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 73
laneum or Pompeii. Nor does itappear to have been employed to any great extentby the Greeks; for with them, a vessel by which to draw water,_was asnecessarv a utensil to their mendicants, as to the inodei-n pilgrims andfakirs of Asia. The poorest of beggars, Aristophanes Telepheus, had astaff, a… … No. 11. Pullov and Bucket. GO Pulley and Bucket. [Book I the case l,ad the pulley been used. If such had been the custom, neitherthe mendicant Telepheus, nor Diogenes, the philosopher, would have car-ried about with them vessels for the purpose. It is not easy to account for the partial rejection…
Pumping machinery
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