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: DESCRIPTIONS OF EVERY VARIETY OF BELLOWS, PISTON, AND ROTARY PUMPS-FIRE ENGINES-WATER RAMS-PRESSURE ENGINES-AIR MACHINES-EOLIPILES, &C. REMARKS ON ANCIENT WELLS-AIR BEDS-COG WHEELS-BLOWPIPES-BELLOWS OF VARIOUS PEOPLEMAGIC 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. TWELFTH EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED TO WHICH 18 ADDED, A SUPPLEMENT BY THOMAS EWBANK. It is a cruel 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 suf fered to sink into oblivion. Robertson's India. NEW YORK: SOLD BY BANGS, PLATT, & CO., 1851. |