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 91
ed to the power em-ployed, whether of men or animals ; and an alternating rotary movementimparted to it, as in the common wheel or capstan, represented in the next;figure. No. 20. It appears from Belidor, (Tom. ii, 3?.3) that machines of thiskind, and worked by men were common in Europe previous… … No. 26. Commou Wheel or Capalan. Circumstances, highly illustrative of European manners during thee-arly part of the 17th and preceding centuries, .ii-e associated with the in-troduction of tahlc-forJcs. They were partially know:i in Italy in the llihcentury, for in a letter of Peter Damiani, who…
Pumping machinery
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