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 248
claration de la figure: C est instrument, quiest faict en forme de Cone, se son soustient sur deux Eoues; ayant sabouche tournee vers le septentrion; et aupres de sa base il y a des demi-cercles, qui servent a 1 hausser, au baisser, d avantage vers sa dictebouche septentrionale est un Entennoir,… … 244 HYDEAULICS, HYDEOSTATICS, ETC. and in whicli hand-squirts are particularly mentioned,and ordered as a part of the outfit. In 1739, Strasbourghad a fire-engine with two pumps, which were a rudeimitation of the modern brake-machine, with the differ-ence that, in place of the brakes, there were…
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