Rural architecture : being a complete description of farm houses, cottages, and out buildings, comprising wood houses, workshops, tool houses ... : together with lawns, pleasure grounds and parks ... also, useful and ornamental domestic animals for the country resident ... : also, the best method of conducting water into cattle yards and houses (1863)
Allen, Lewis F. (Lewis Falley), 1800-1890 · New York : C.M. Saxton · leaf 348
538 RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 189 and 191, Water-street — have kindly furnished us with the following description of the machine, given by W. & B. Douglass, of Middletown, Connecticut, manufacturers of the article : … WATER RAM. "H, spring or brook. 0, drive, or supply-pipe from brook to ram. G-, discharge pipe, conveying water to house or other point required for use. B, D, A, E, I, the Ram. J, the plank or other foundation to which the machine is secured for use. "The various uses of the ram are at once…