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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... discharged from one into another , and conveyed from the lowest to the city . " I descended into the third and largest ; it is lined with plaister like the Indian chunan , and hanging terraces run all round it . " Lindsay's Trav . Let ...
... discharged from one into another , and conveyed from the lowest to the city . " I descended into the third and largest ; it is lined with plaister like the Indian chunan , and hanging terraces run all round it . " Lindsay's Trav . Let ...
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... discharged its contents into the reservoir . As soon as the bucket was empty , the man at the bottom stepped off the frame and ran up a flight of stairs made for the purpose , to the place whence he descended ; and in the mean time ...
... discharged its contents into the reservoir . As soon as the bucket was empty , the man at the bottom stepped off the frame and ran up a flight of stairs made for the purpose , to the place whence he descended ; and in the mean time ...
Página 65
... discharged from A , runs to waste through some channel provided for the purpose . These machines are of limited application , since they require a fall for the de- scent of A , equal to the elevation to which the liquid is raised in B ...
... discharged from A , runs to waste through some channel provided for the purpose . These machines are of limited application , since they require a fall for the de- scent of A , equal to the elevation to which the liquid is raised in B ...
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... discharge . Sometimes , openings are made in the bot- tom next the laborers , and covered by flaps , to admit the ... discharged into small reservoirs , suf- ficiently deep to admit the jantu above , to be plunged low enough to fill ...
... discharge . Sometimes , openings are made in the bot- tom next the laborers , and covered by flaps , to admit the ... discharged into small reservoirs , suf- ficiently deep to admit the jantu above , to be plunged low enough to fill ...
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... discharged into a reservoir , over which the last one is made to project . A double set of gutters , as shown in the figure , was sometimes attached to the same frame , so that a continuous stream could be discharg- ed into the ...
... discharged into a reservoir , over which the last one is made to project . A double set of gutters , as shown in the figure , was sometimes attached to the same frame , so that a continuous stream could be discharg- ed into the ...
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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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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
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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...