An old engraving of men digging a well by hand in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Two men are walking in a circle turning a boring tool contained within an iron cylinder or rod. Above them the boring rods are suspended from a pivoted, wooden beam, which a worker raises and lets down in a pounding motion, assisting the drilling. Using a variety of bits on the tool (augers, cutters, hole-cleaners, claws and others), and by adding new sections to the cylinder, the well would become deep enough to tap into an underground, artesian water supply.
An old engraving of men digging a well by hand in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Two men are walking in a circle turning a boring tool contained within an iron cylinder or rod. Above them the boring rods are suspended from a pivoted, wooden beam, which a worker raises and lets down in a pounding motion, assisting the drilling. Using a variety of bits on the tool (augers, cutters, hole-cleaners, claws and others), and by adding new sections to the cylinder, the well would become deep enough to tap into an underground, artesian water supply.
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