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Title: 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
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870
Subjects: Pumping machinery
Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTOKICAL ACCOUNT OF HYDRAULIC AND OTHER MACHINES OB RAISING WATER, 2lncicut antr iHotiftit; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE MECHANIC ARTS: INCLUDING THE PBOGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STEAM ENGINE. IN FIVE BOOKS. 3-IIustraltIi ij ntarl2 Q>f)rje ?tlunlJnIl Bn^rabfitss. SIXTEENTH EDITION.—AV I T H ADDITIONAL MATTER. By THOMAS EWBANK, LATE COMMISSIPXER OF PATENTS ; AUTHOR OF THE WORLD A WORKSHOP ; THOCGHTS ON MATTERAND FORCE ; INORGANIC FORCES ORDAINED TO)SUPERSEDE HUMAN SLAVERY, ETC. It is a cruel mortification, in searching for what is instructive in the history of pa.st times, to findthe exploits of conquerors wlio have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tjrrants who have ren-dered nations unhappy, are recorded with minute and often disgusting accuracy—while the dis-covery of useful arts, and the progress of the most beneficial branches of commerce, are passedover in silence, and suffered to sink into oblivion. BohertsotCs India. Ndescriptivehisto00ewbauoft

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