This is a reprint, in the form of scanned images, from Thomas Ewbank's A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines[,] or[,] Raising Water, Ancient and Modern; With Observations on Various Subjects Connected with the Mechanical Arts: Including the Progressive Development of The Steam Engine. Sixteenth Edition. NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1876.
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