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 EngravingsDerby & Jackson, 1858 - 608 Seiten |
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16th century ages ancient Anglo Saxon animals antiquity appears aqueducts Archimedes arts Asia atmospheric pump attached bellows Book bucket cauldrons century chain of pots chain pump Chap China Chinese cisterns common construction cord Ctesibius Cusco custom cylinder descend described device discharged double acting draw water Egypt Egyptian elevation employed engine feet figure fire fire-engines forcing pumps fountains gardens Greece Greeks gutter hence Herculaneum Herodotus Hindoos hydraulic inches inhabitants invention iron irrigation jantu labor latter lever liquid machines for raising mechanics mentioned metal Metallica mode modern Motezuma motion mouth named noria observes orifice Persian wheel Peruvians pipe piston placed Plutarch Pompeii pressure probably pulley raised the water raising water remarks represented reservoir Roman rope round says screw shaft ship side similar sometimes spring stone stream sucker supposed swape temple Thebes tion travelers tube tympanum upper valve vessels Vitruvius weight wheel windlass
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Seite 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.
Seite 132 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Seite 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.
Seite 51 - And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Seite 476 - 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 579 - Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
Seite 557 - ... twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east : and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies : it contained two thousand baths.
Seite 596 - A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all...