Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hydraulic Machinery: With an Introduction to Hydraulics
Machinery actuated by water is termed hydraulic machinery, and writers often include under this title machines, such as pumps, which act on water. Hydraulic appliances were known and used from a very early date. Many of these, mainly for raising water, were employed long before the beginning of the Christian era.
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