The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon . e of but one pulley,one cord, and two buckets, without any force orpump plunger, or any wheel, or sucker. An arrange-ment so simple seems only possible to be attained bysome such plan as that exhibited in the illustrationgiven below. We have here an endless chain or cord, A B, passing over the pulley C,with a bucket D, at the upperend; and another bucket E, at thelower end ; the first in the act ofdischarging its contents into
The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon . e of but one pulley,one cord, and two buckets, without any force orpump plunger, or any wheel, or sucker. An arrange-ment so simple seems only possible to be attained bysome such plan as that exhibited in the illustrationgiven below. We have here an endless chain or cord, A B, passing over the pulley C,with a bucket D, at the upperend; and another bucket E, at thelower end ; the first in the act ofdischarging its contents into thetrough G, the second re-chargingwith water at the level E. Thisendless chain is farther suppliedwith a series of conical or othershaped buckets, «, a\ set on theendless cord in a reverse direction,so as to receive water conveyedfrom an upper stream by thespout F, by which means theside B, of the cord will descend,and the side A, ascend, without any other forcethan its own motion, and that with two bucketsonly, day and night. On the side a\ the conicalbuckets reverse and empty themselves, thereby lighten-ing the ascending side A, of the endless chain or 22. To make a River in a Garden toebbe and flow conftantly, thoughtwenty foot over, with a childs force, WITH NOTES. 419 ill fome private room or place outof fight, and a competent diflancefrom it. [_An ebbing and flowing River.] In reference to thisinvention Mr. Partington has quoted Peter Bogaertsingenious method of a canal lock, so contrived that, ina model, a weight of seven pounds was made to raiseten hundred weight of water more than four feet in afew seconds. But still the process of ebbing and flowing is notmade out; it does appear, however, that its operationrequires the constant services of a boy or otherattendant, probably to keep alternately opening andclosing certain sluice arrangements, placed somewhereconcealed from view; the whole affording a water-work to amuse and surprise, and forming a variety onthe
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