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 iv
... present little attraction to general readers , will at least be found useful to those for whom it is more espe- cially designed . It certainly is not what I could wish , but it is the best I could produce . I am sensible that it has ...
... present little attraction to general readers , will at least be found useful to those for whom it is more espe- cially designed . It certainly is not what I could wish , but it is the best I could produce . I am sensible that it has ...
עמוד vi
... present un- explored sources of materials . They are mines of the richest ores- fields teeming with the choicest fruits and flowers . Here are to be found incidents as agreeable and exciting in their natures , and as important in their ...
... present un- explored sources of materials . They are mines of the richest ores- fields teeming with the choicest fruits and flowers . Here are to be found incidents as agreeable and exciting in their natures , and as important in their ...
עמוד ix
... present advanced state of the arts - Origin of the useful arts lost - Their history neglected by the ancients - First inventors the greatest benefactors - Memorials of them perished , while accounts of warriors and their acts pervade ...
... present advanced state of the arts - Origin of the useful arts lost - Their history neglected by the ancients - First inventors the greatest benefactors - Memorials of them perished , while accounts of warriors and their acts pervade ...
עמוד x
... present red men - Their examination desirable - Might furnish ( like the wells at Athens ) important data of former ages - 37 44 CHAPTER VIII . Ancient methods of raising water from wells : Inclined planes - Stairs within wells : in ...
... present red men - Their examination desirable - Might furnish ( like the wells at Athens ) important data of former ages - 37 44 CHAPTER VIII . Ancient methods of raising water from wells : Inclined planes - Stairs within wells : in ...
עמוד 1
... present advanced state of the Arts - Origin of the useful arts lost- Their history neglected by the Ancients - First Inventors the greatest benefactors - Memorials of them perished , while accounts of warriors and their acts pervade and ...
... present advanced state of the Arts - Origin of the useful arts lost- Their history neglected by the Ancients - First Inventors the greatest benefactors - Memorials of them perished , while accounts of warriors and their acts pervade and ...
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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...