Pumping Machinery: A Practical Hand-Book Relating to the Construction and Management of Steam and Power Pumping Machines (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Barr, William M.

9780364040744: Pumping Machinery: A Practical Hand-Book Relating to the Construction and Management of Steam and Power Pumping Machines (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0364040742 ISBN 13: 9780364040744

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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It is not probable that any satisfactory device for raising water is lost to us, although its history has long since been forgotten, the fact of utility has been the very means of its preservation nor did the great invasions and conquests of the ancient world affect unfavorably the development of this useful art, for water was alike essential to the conqueror and the con quered.

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