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 76
e apparatus,and one which naturally led to the development of that great machine, inwhich terminated all the improvements of the older mechanics on theprimitive cord and bucket—and to which, modern ingenuity has added—nothing—viz : the endless chain of pots—indeed nothing more wasthen wanting, but… … No. 13. Ancient.[From sepulchral monuments.] No. 14. Modern. The Anglo Saxons used two buckets hooped with iron, one at eachend of a chain which passed over a pulley.^ And in the old Normancastles, w%ater was raised by the same means. In one of the keeps or (oioers,still remaining, which was built…
Pumping machinery
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