Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 349
an strength was employed ; of all the scientifictools invented to economise effort and to shorten the durationof a task, the only one they seem ever to have used was themostsimple of all, the lever, an instrument that must have been inventedover and over again wherever men tried to lift masses of… … Fig. 152.—Putting a bull in place ; from Layaid. In a relief in the palace of Assurnazirpal at Nimroud, there is apulley exactly similar to those often seen over a modern well.A cord runs over it and supports a bucket. There is no evidencethat the Assyrians employed such a contrivance for any…
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