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 551
IRON. bellows which were used were very curious and ingeniousin their construction. In the case of one village therewas a double-acting bellows that would reflect credit on•a much higher class of people. Each bellows was likea drum, the top of which, in place of being fast, wasloose, so as to admit… … PISTON BELLOWS USED BY SAVAGES OF APEICA. •stick was raised and lowered by the natives, the air wasdrawn in the body of the drum and driven through thepipe against the fire; there was another drum, preciselylike the first, which was operated by the other hand ofthe native, the handle of one being…
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