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:

DESCRIPTIONS OF EVERY VARIETY OF BELLOWS, PISTON, AND ROTARY PUMPS-FIRE EN
GINES-WATER RAMS-PRESSURE ENGINES—AIR MACHINES-EOLIPILES, &C. REMARKS OF
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, &C.

IN FIVE BOOKS.

ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.

FOURTEENTH EDITION,

REVISED AND CORRECTED TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SUPPLEMENT

BY THOMAS EWBANK.

It is a crue! mortification in searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find the
exploits of conquerors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered na
tions unhappy, are recorded with minute and often disgusting accuracy-while the discovery of useful
arts, and the progress of the most beneficial branches of commerce, are passed over in silence, and sut
ered to sink into oblivion.
Robertson's India.

NEW YORK:

DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET.

1858.

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OF THE

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