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 . issuesfrom the fingers of some, while others hold a vase from which it flows, asin the Greek and Roman designs of Oceanus and Neptune. The Dutchon first visiting the Japanese found the baths of these people suppliedwith cold and warm water by means of pipes and copper cocks.—(Montanus Japan, translated by Ogill)y, pp. 04, 279, 449, and ThunbergsTravels, iii
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 . issuesfrom the fingers of some, while others hold a vase from which it flows, asin the Greek and Roman designs of Oceanus and Neptune. The Dutchon first visiting the Japanese found the baths of these people suppliedwith cold and warm water by means of pipes and copper cocks.—(Montanus Japan, translated by Ogill)y, pp. 04, 279, 449, and ThunbergsTravels, iii, 102.) Bronze or brass cocks \vere as common in old Rome and probably otherancient cities, as they are in any modern one. The immense number ofpipes that conveyed water to the houses, baths, fountains, &c. must havekept a great number of founders constantly at work in making and re-pairing them. We learn from Vitruvius that every main pipe that passedthrough the streets, had a large cock, by which the water was let in orexcluded, and that these cocks were turned as similar ones now are, withan iron key. Several specimens of ancient cocks are extant. Amongthese, a verv large one discovered in the ruins of a temj>le built b\. B58 Ancient Bnmze Cocks—Silver Pipes and Cocks. [Bonk V Tibrrius at Capri, and preserved in the Museum at Naples, is not theleast interesting. No. 273 is a figure of it. The plug has become by time immoveable, and having been shutwhen last used, the water within it isstill confined. This is made evident,for when two men raise the cock, thesplashing sound of the fluid is distinctlyheard. Tliis cock was found attached to areservoir, but in what manner it was con-nected we know not—by solder 1 screws ?—particulars that cannot be determined.,„„., ^ , by the sketch. Had we an opportunity No. 273. Ancient bronze cock. - ... i i ! oi examuimg it we would endeavor toftscertiun its weight, dimensions, &c.—whether the substance of the plug andchami)e
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