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 páginas |
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... Pliny ) assembled from all parts of the world to purchase hardware and bronze . An island whose artists were ennobled for the beauty and finish of their works in the metals , and who particularly excelled in brazen feet for chairs ...
... Pliny ) assembled from all parts of the world to purchase hardware and bronze . An island whose artists were ennobled for the beauty and finish of their works in the metals , and who particularly excelled in brazen feet for chairs ...
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... Pliny respecting it -Common among the ancient Mexicans , Romans and Egyptians - Offered by the latter people on their altars - The model after which vessels of capacity were originally formed - Its figure still preserved in several ...
... Pliny respecting it -Common among the ancient Mexicans , Romans and Egyptians - Offered by the latter people on their altars - The model after which vessels of capacity were originally formed - Its figure still preserved in several ...
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... Pliny - Celts - Gauls - Modern super- stitions with regard to water and wells - Hindoos - Algerines - Nineveh - Greeks - Tombs of saints near wells - Superstitions of the Persians - Anglo - Saxons - Hindoos - Scotch - English - St ...
... Pliny - Celts - Gauls - Modern super- stitions with regard to water and wells - Hindoos - Algerines - Nineveh - Greeks - Tombs of saints near wells - Superstitions of the Persians - Anglo - Saxons - Hindoos - Scotch - English - St ...
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... Pliny - Air gun of Ctesibius - The hookah CHAPTER IV . - 259 Forcing pumps continued : La Hire's double acting pump - Plunger pump : invented by Moreland ; the most valuable of modern improvements on the pump - Application of it to ...
... Pliny - Air gun of Ctesibius - The hookah CHAPTER IV . - 259 Forcing pumps continued : La Hire's double acting pump - Plunger pump : invented by Moreland ; the most valuable of modern improvements on the pump - Application of it to ...
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... Pliny's account of fountains in the gardens of his Tuscan villa - Eating in gardens - Alluded to in Solomon's Song - Cato the Censor - Singular fountains in Italy - Fountains described by Marco Paulo and other old writers - Predilection ...
... Pliny's account of fountains in the gardens of his Tuscan villa - Eating in gardens - Alluded to in Solomon's Song - Cato the Censor - Singular fountains in Italy - Fountains described by Marco Paulo and other old writers - Predilection ...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Visualização integral - 1847 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Visualização integral - 1842 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Visualização integral - 1846 |
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 44 - Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...