A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: With Observations on Various Subjects Connected with the Mechanic Arts: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine ... In Five Books. Illustrated by Nearly Three Hundred EngravingsGreeley & McElrath, 1842 - 582 עמודים |
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עמוד 3
... labor , and is the object of servile trades . To the prevalence of such unphilosophical notions amongst the learned men of old , may be attributed , the irretrievable loss of information re- specting the prominent mechanics of the early ...
... labor , and is the object of servile trades . To the prevalence of such unphilosophical notions amongst the learned men of old , may be attributed , the irretrievable loss of information re- specting the prominent mechanics of the early ...
עמוד 10
... labor . This has ever been the case in various parts of Asia , and also in Egypt and other parts of Africa , where rain seldom falls . It is only from a knowledge of this fact and of the temperature and debilitating influences of ...
... labor . This has ever been the case in various parts of Asia , and also in Egypt and other parts of Africa , where rain seldom falls . It is only from a knowledge of this fact and of the temperature and debilitating influences of ...
עמוד 12
... labor , or the implements of husbandry were known . Of these last , rude implements formed of sticks , might have been , and probably were used , as they have been by rude people in all ages . Virgil's description of the aborigines of ...
... labor , or the implements of husbandry were known . Of these last , rude implements formed of sticks , might have been , and probably were used , as they have been by rude people in all ages . Virgil's description of the aborigines of ...
עמוד 23
... labor is an ornament to every young woman - indeed nei- ther the symmetry of her person , nor the vigor of her mind , can be per- fectly developed without it . The fine forms and glowing health of the women of old , were chiefly owing ...
... labor is an ornament to every young woman - indeed nei- ther the symmetry of her person , nor the vigor of her mind , can be per- fectly developed without it . The fine forms and glowing health of the women of old , were chiefly owing ...
עמוד 27
... labor of rais- ing water out of deep wells was imposed as a punishment on the daugh- ters of Danaus , for the murder of their husbands . The daughters of Phae- don ( who was put to death by the thirty tyrants ) threw themselves into a ...
... labor of rais- ing water out of deep wells was imposed as a punishment on the daugh- ters of Danaus , for the murder of their husbands . The daughters of Phae- don ( who was put to death by the thirty tyrants ) threw themselves into a ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
16th century ages ancient animals antiquity apparatus appears aqueducts Archimedes arts Asia atmospheric pump attached bellows Book bottom bucket century chain of pots chain pump Chap Chinese cistern common construction cord Ctesibius Cusco cylinder descend described devices discharged double acting draw water Egypt Egyptian elevation employed engines feet figure fire fire-engines forcing pump fountains gardens Greeks gutter hence Herodotus Hindoos hydraulic hydraulic machinery inches inhabitants invention iron irrigation jantu labor latter leather lever liquid lower machines for raising mechanics mentioned metal Metallica mode modern Motezuma motion mouth moved named noria observes orifice Persian wheel Peruvians piston rods placed Pompeii pressure probably pulley raised the water raising water remarks represented reservoir Roman rope round says screw shaft ship side similar sometimes stone stream stuffing box sucker supposed swape syringe tion tube tympanum upper valve vessels Vitruvius water wheels weight wheel
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 571 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
עמוד 44 - ... and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
עמוד 400 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
עמוד 40 - And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
עמוד 95 - Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
עמוד 44 - Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
עמוד 67 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
עמוד 518 - When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was-, (but the servants which drew the water knew) the governor of the feast...
עמוד 428 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
עמוד 85 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the...