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 EngravingsD. Appleton, 1842 - 582 páginas |
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... Asia - Papin was one of the authors of the steam - engine , and Le Demour devised the centrifugal pump . Rotary pumps and the reintroduction of air - vessels and fire - engines rest between Germany and France . Drawn leaden pipes were ...
... Asia - Papin was one of the authors of the steam - engine , and Le Demour devised the centrifugal pump . Rotary pumps and the reintroduction of air - vessels and fire - engines rest between Germany and France . Drawn leaden pipes were ...
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... Asia - Primitive modes of procuring water - Using the hand as a cup- Traditions respecting Adam - Scythian tradition - Palladium - Observations on the primitive state of man , and the origin of the arts CHAPTER III . Origin of vessels ...
... Asia - Primitive modes of procuring water - Using the hand as a cup- Traditions respecting Adam - Scythian tradition - Palladium - Observations on the primitive state of man , and the origin of the arts CHAPTER III . Origin of vessels ...
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... Asia and Af- rica . Bellows of Madagascar . Chinese bellows : account of two in the Philadelphia museum- Remarks on a knowledge of the pump among the ancient Chinese - Chinese bellows similar in their construction to the water forcer of ...
... Asia and Af- rica . Bellows of Madagascar . Chinese bellows : account of two in the Philadelphia museum- Remarks on a knowledge of the pump among the ancient Chinese - Chinese bellows similar in their construction to the water forcer of ...
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... ASIA and the VALLEY OF THE NILE , it was that of raising water for agricultural purposes . Not merely their general welfare , but their very existence depended upon the artificial irriga- tion of the land ; hence their ingenuity was ...
... ASIA and the VALLEY OF THE NILE , it was that of raising water for agricultural purposes . Not merely their general welfare , but their very existence depended upon the artificial irriga- tion of the land ; hence their ingenuity was ...
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... Asia ; and his design was to people those in Asia with Europeans , and those in Europe with Asiatics . In this manner some of the most useful arts , necessarily became common to all the nations of old ; and their per- petuity in some ...
... Asia ; and his design was to people those in Asia with Europeans , and those in Europe with Asiatics . In this manner some of the most useful arts , necessarily became common to all the nations of old ; and their per- petuity in some ...
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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 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 35 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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 549 - 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 51 - And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Página 84 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Página 102 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Página 496 - 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 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 454 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
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?