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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...a warrior arm'd cap-a-pe, who, by mechanism under the steps, as soon as you tread on them, lifts up the bever of his helmet with his truncheon to salute you." There was also a celebrated water-engine at Toledo, the former capital of Spain. It raised the water of the Tagus to the top of the Alcazar, a magnificent palace erected on the summit of the declivity on which the city built; the elevation being " five hundred cubits from the surface of the river." What the particular construction of this machine was we have not been able to ascertain, nor whether it was originally erected by the Moors who built the palace. It is mentioned by Moreri as a "wonderful hydraulic engine which draws up the water from the river Tagus to so great a height, that it is thence conveyed in pipes to the whole city;" but in the middle of the last century (1751) the author of the Grand Gazetteer, or Topographic Dictionary, remarks (page 1289).that this "admirable engme" was then " entirely ruined." The introduction of pump engines into the public water-works of England and France is sufficiently ascertained. This did not take place till long after they had been employed in Germany; and both London and Paris were indebted to engineers of that country for the first machines to raise water from the Thames and the Seine. Previous to their introduction, cities were commonly supplied from springs by means of pipes. As early as A. D. 1236, the corporation of London commenced to lay a six inch leaden pipe from some springs at Tyburn, a village at that time some miles distant from the city. This is supposed to have been the first attempt to convey water to that city through pipes, and fifty years elapsed before the whole was...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1234235161
- ISBN 13 9781234235161
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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