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 . No. 41. Swape from S. Munsters Coss-ography. 1550. The Swape was very common in France and the neighboring nation,on the Europenn continent, in tlie last and prececbng centuries. It isnamed bascule in France. The old Dirtionnaire de Trevoux, says : res bascues les plus simple, sont celles qui ne consistent quen unepiece deto^ssou;/.uedunLutre par le milieu
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 . No. 41. Swape from S. Munsters Coss-ography. 1550. The Swape was very common in France and the neighboring nation,on the Europenn continent, in tlie last and prececbng centuries. It isnamed bascule in France. The old Dirtionnaire de Trevoux, says : res bascues les plus simple, sont celles qui ne consistent quen unepiece deto^ssou;/.uedunLutre par le milieu ou autrement, commaJsanessieu, pour et^e plus au moins en equilibre. Lorsquon pese su. Chap. 13 ] Old, Frcmh Swape. 101. No. 42. Swape from Bcsson. 1568. nn des bouts Iiiutre haasse. Ccs soites cle b;isculos soiit les plus < omfiiunes; on sen sert pour clover des eaux. The last seiitnnce is heJievedlo be applicable to every part of Europe at the present time, so as at any former period. We subjoin a description of oneproposed by James iiesson, a Frenchmechanician, 270 years ajjo, bywhich two buckets, one at each end,may be used. As the vibraiiDii ofthe beam is ingeniously efitoiej bya contiiiuous i-otary movement, afigure of it wiil be acceptable to theintelligent niocnanic. The lever is suspended at thecentre of its length, on a pin vliicrpasses through the lower part of tlieperpendicular post, the upper cwuof which is firmly secured to theframe and cross piece. A perpen-dicular shaft is placed immediatelyunder the lower end of the post andin the same vertical hne with it. Theupper journal of the shaft enters andturns in the end of the post, v/hileits lower one is received into a cav
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