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 . 56S APPENDIX. Fire-Engines and Bclloics Pu/njjs, pp. 241, 321. No. 284 is a belle waor fiictionless pump, from the first edition of Bales Mysteries of Natureand Art. It is identical with the fire engine referred to in our third book,except being placed within an open frame instead of a cistern fixed uponwheels. For its description, see pp. 321-2. (The leath
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 . 56S APPENDIX. Fire-Engines and Bclloics Pu/njjs, pp. 241, 321. No. 284 is a belle waor fiictionless pump, from the first edition of Bales Mysteries of Natureand Art. It is identical with the fire engine referred to in our third book,except being placed within an open frame instead of a cistern fixed uponwheels. For its description, see pp. 321-2. (The leathern bag whichconnected the t\Tv» brass vessels is not figured by the old artist.). No. 2c I. OIJ frictionless or pump, A. I). 1C33, Wafer-W/nels, p. 282. There are indications in tlie Iliad that A^ulcanused water power, and that it was by the dextrous concealment of it andthe mechanism by which it was transmitted that enabled him to excite inso high a degree the astonishment of his contcmpoiaries, and to give riseto those wonderful stories of his skill that are even yet extant. Whenengaged at the anvil Homer represents him, like a modern smith, with asingle pair of bellows. Thus Thetis found him sweating at his bellowshuge ; but in other scenes, he is exhibited rather as manager of extensiveforges for the reduction of metals ; the fires beihg urged \>y a large num-ber of bellows mov-ed either by water or some other inorganic force. Likea superintendent of modern iron or copper works, ordering the bellowsto be thrown into geer, and the blasts increased or diminished as circum-stances require : so Vulcan turning to the fires, lie bade the bellowsheave ; the
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