A AL ACCOUNT ER MACHINES WATER, :d Modern: NS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS ...CTED WITH THE MANIC ARTS: IROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF STEAM ENGINE: VARIETY OF BELLOWS, PISTON, AND ROTARY PUMPS-FIRE ENASURE ENGINES-AIR MACHINES-EOLIPILES, &C. REMARKS ON COG WHEELS-BLOWPIPES-BELLOWS OF VARIOUS PEOPLEOLS, AND OTHER MACHINERY OF ANCIENT TEMPLES. TO WHICH ON BLOWING AND SPOUTING TUBES, AND OTHER ORIGINAL DES AND MACHINERY FOR RAISING WATER. HISTORICAL NOTICES , FOUNTAINS, WATER ORGANS, CLEPSYDRÆ, PIPES, VALVES, COCKS, &C. IN FIVE BOOKS. RATED BY NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. BY THOMAS EWBANK. 1 mortification in searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find the querors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations corded with minute and often disgusting accuracy-while the discovery of useful arts, gress of the most beneficial branches of commerce are passed over in silence, and suffered to Robertson's India. 16.45.13 NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. 1842. Α 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: DESCRIPTIONS OF EVERY VARIETY OF BELLOWS, PISTON, AND ROTARY PUMPS-FIRE EN- IN FIVE BOOKS. ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. BY THOMAS EWBANK. It is a cruel mortification in searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find the 16.45.13 NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. 1842. |