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 75
ntical mode adopted, and likfother devices of the.ancients, it is still continued by their descendants irAfrica and Asia. Its value in the estimation of the moderns, may belearned from the fact, that it is adopted in this and other cities for raisingcoals, &c. fiom the holds of ships; for which… … No. 12. Ancient and Modem method of raising water in Asia. This was probably one of the first operations, and certainly one of themost obvious, where luiman labor was superseded by that of animals, andin accoinplishiiig it, the pully itself w^as perhaps (.iscovered. This modeis common in Egypt,…
Pumping machinery
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