The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 256
-organ ; for, like the warning whistles of ourlocomotives, it ■was worked by the effects of the steam of boiling waterrushing into brass pipes. The water-organ ■«•as, in very early times, superseded by the pneumaticor wind-organ (Fig. 169), the description of which given by St. Jérômeagrées with… … Fig. lÔQ.— Pneumatic Organ of the Pourth Centun-, (Sculpture of that date at Constantinople.) West, or at least into France. In 757, Constantine Copronymiis, Emperorof the East, sent to Xing Pépin a number of présents, among which wasan organ that excited the admiration of the court. Charlemagne,…
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