Water pump and well. 16th-century illustration of a water pump powered by manual rotation of a wheel being used to raise water from the bottom of a we

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Water pump and well. 16th-century illustration of a water pump powered by manual rotation of a wheel being used to raise water from the bottom of a well. This illustration is from 'Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine' (1588) by Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli (). This work contains nearly 200 designs for devices, many of them water-raising machines including water wheels, pumps, mills, fountains, and wells. This is an example of an encased suction pump.

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