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 77
e mode is practised in Italy, by which a person in the upper storyof a house, and at some distance from the well or cistern, (which is gen-erally in the court yard,) raises water without being obliged to descend. One eni of a strong iron rod or wire, is fixed to the house above thewindow cf an… … on the fai-ther side of tiie we!I and In a line with its centre as in No. 15.A ring which slides easily over the wire is secured to the handle of thebucket, to which a cord is also attached and passes over a pulley fixed-1 .1 . • 1 __ r|<|j|^|^ when the cord is slackened, the bucket de- scends…
Pumping machinery
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