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A new and rare invention of water-works, teaching how to raise water higher than the spring, by which invention the perpetual motion is proposed, and many hard labours performed. [electronic resource] : By Isaac de Caus, engineer. As also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising of vast quantities of water, by fire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caus, Isaac de, 1590-1648.
- Standardized Title:
- Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hydraulic engineering--Early works to 1800.
- Hydraulic engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],47,[3]p.,plate ) ill. ;
- Other Title:
- New and rare invention of water-works, teaching how to raise water higher than the spring, by which invention the perpetual motion is proposed, and many hard labours performed
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Moxon, at the Atlas in Warwick-Lane, 1704.
- Notes:
- A translation of the author's 'Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau', 1644.
- Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.
- Cited in:
- Goldsmiths', 4050
- English Short Title Catalog, T126932.
- OCLC:
- 508884717
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