. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. LA Machine Stfti^f â¢/»' iti Au'trtf M Jrtne ftj J' en ft e'i<t"f p{u4 prtj Jt /^ I'' ft «/»V'" '.Hftucn M ^ J^ne cUe fj"te U nam Ctirt ^tne (â /^(v'iiJi* p-*Uifj ,\^*tntr tr ^Ut^r Tjitsej Je h^tC qut/U . f^ VfjJtiltj ^tttntn cfb fht^ne,fue Jum I'^^nnt Ixriut .it chemm- par X- ill Fcr , '^*^^,..-4^. liinj ,/c Li Ruiic r ^ (' / // c iaMMMMilMi^^MaMBliMaMMttaMi Figure 8.âThe Waterworks at Marlv-le-Ro!, on the Seine River, Built in 1684 to Supply t
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. LA Machine Stfti^f â¢/»' iti Au'trtf M Jrtne ftj J' en ft e'i<t"f p{u4 prtj Jt /^ I'' ft «/»V'" '.Hftucn M ^ J^ne cUe fj"te U nam Ctirt ^tne (â /^(v'iiJi* p-*Uifj ,\^*tntr tr ^Ut^r Tjitsej Je h^tC qut/U . f^ VfjJtiltj ^tttntn cfb fht^ne,fue Jum I'^^nnt Ixriut .it chemm- par X- ill Fcr , '^*^^,..-4^. liinj ,/c Li Ruiic r ^ (' / // c iaMMMMilMi^^MaMBliMaMMttaMi Figure 8.âThe Waterworks at Marlv-le-Ro!, on the Seine River, Built in 1684 to Supply the Fountains at the Roval Palace at V'erseilles. From a print by dc Fcr, 1705. {Smithsonian photo 45593.) connection between the urs;cncy of the problem of mine drainage in England, and the invention of the steam engine, has often been suggested.^' Perhaps the "backwardness" of Germany in steam-engine experimentation, and later in the introduction of the Newcomen engine, was to some extent due to tlie adequacy of existing machinery to meet the problem of mine flooding, for it is not clear that this problem existed on the continent.^^ -' Dickinson, H. VV., A short history oj the steam engine, New York, n. d., p. 3. 22 In 1673 Edward Browne visited Hungary and the Erzgc- birge. His report on the trip, A briej account oj some travels in diverse parts oJ Europe (2nd cd., London, 1685, p. 170), says little about machinery, but does not mention Hooding as a serious problem. Of an 84-fathom mine called AufT der Halsbrucker, near Freiberg, he says "'they arc not so much troubled with water, and have very good engines to draw A comparison of the technic]ues described by Agricola with those of a century later sugsresls that this was a century of significant progress in that earlier industrial revolution described by Mumford as his "Eotechnic phase," characterized by "'the diminished use of human beings as prime movers, and the separation of the jjr
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