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 ... / by Thomas Ewbank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pumping machinery.

Hydraulic machinery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 608, [1] leaf of plates) : ill.

Edition:

3rd ed., rev. and corr. / to which is added a supplement.

Other Title:

Descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern

Contents:

bk. 1. Primitive and ancient devices for raising water

Bk. 2. Machines for raising water by the pressure of the atmosphere

Bk. 3. Machines for raising water by compressure independently of atmospheric influence

Bk. 4. Machines for raising water (chiefly of modern origin), including early applications of steam for that purpose

Bk. 5. Novel devices for raising water, with an account of siphons, cocks, valves, clepsydrae, &c. &c.

Notes:

"Illustrated by nearly three hundred engravings."

Added, engr. t.p.

"Description of every variety of bellows, piston, and rotary pumps--Fire engines--Water rams--Pressure engines--Air machines--Eolopoles, etc. Remarks on ancient wells--Air beds--Cog wheels--Blowpipes--Bellows of various people--Magic goblets--Steam idols, and other machinery of ancient temples. To which are added experiments on blowing and spouting tubes, and other original devices--Nature's modes and machinery for raising water. Historical notices respecting siphons, fountains, water organs, clepsydræ, pipes, valves, cocks, etc."

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

879313123