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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 235

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xis, at the height at which they wishedto raise the water; and then ran the chains underneath 230 HYDEAULICS, HYDEOSTATICS, ETC. the water and beneath, a fixed roller. To the chainsthey suspended buckets shaped like one-half of a cyhn-drical tin-can such as is used for the packing of pre-served… … ROMAN CHAIN POTS. It was well along in the seventeenth century that theinfluence of the atmosphere became known. A sucking pump was made by a Florentine, which had no difiicultyin raising water to a distance of about thirty-three feet;but beyond this it would not operate. It is said thatthe facts…

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