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 82
nd raising of water from them, as among the first uses to which it,as well as the pulley, was applied. The windlass possesses an importantadvantage over the sinr/le pulley in lifting weights, or overcoming anyresistance; since the intensity of the force transmitted through it canbe modified, either… … No. 18. Wiudl.iss. From Kirchcr ^ Alundus Subterrancu*. The buckets are suspended from opposite sides of the roller, the ropewinding round it in different directions, so that, as one ascends, the otherde^cends. Pliny, in his iNatural History, xi,\, 4, mentions this machine asused by the Romans for…
Pumping machinery
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