The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 234
s in use among the Hindoos, a veryingenious modification of the sweep, which consists inconstructing it so that a man can walk along the upperportion of it. There are hand-rails on both sides whichprevent his falhng off; he steps past the centre towards; ■ History of the Hindoos. Ward. VAEIOUS… … HINDOO SWEEP. Following these came various sorts of apphances inthe shape of wheels whose outer rim bore buckets, whichwere filled as they descended into and rose from thewater, and were emptied as they reached the top bybeing inverted over gutters for carrying the water away.There were scores of…
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