The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 666
VII. p. 219. another very similar utensil {fig. 112.) called the aquarian,or waterer; an attentive consideration of both which will show that thefilling of either with water is a matter, if not of difficulty, at least of loss 65* General Notices. of time, as the water has to enter by the very holes… … « is a lifting clack, the same as usedin the bucket of the common pump,which admits the water into the de-spatcher, and will close securely assoon as the despatcher is filled, b, anupper valve, which is raised up by theupward pressure of the air as the waterrushes in below at a; and as soon asthe…
