Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A chain or rope washer pump or paternoster

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Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A chain or rope washer pump or paternoster; A human powered irrigation pump; A hand operated leve drives a crank connected to a weighted flywheel. This in turn drives a series of wooden toothed gears which operates a series of buckets on an endless chain which draw water from an underground reservoir.

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