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Plate 70: Device for raising water from a canal
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.
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Plate 69: Device for raising water from a low place by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear.
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Plate 67: Device for raising water from a river
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; double worm and reversing racks; roller guides.
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Plate 68: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; vertical crankshaft; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; crank and connecting rod; flywheel.
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Plate 66: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; machine crank; bellows pump; horizontal working beam; flywheel.
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Plate 65: Device for raising water from a canal
- 1588
The building housing the device is ornately decorated with male and female caryatids, vegetal motifs, scrollwork, fish, hybrid water creatures; the door is surmounted by a heraldic coat of arms.
Mechanics: horizontal…
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Plate 64: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
The well is decorated with a monstrous female figure who gazes in the mirror and dispenses water from her breasts.
Mechanics: hand crank; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur…
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Plate 63: Device for raising water from a canal
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; motion converter (rotating to linear).
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Plate 62: Device for draining water from a pool or marsh by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lift pump; lantern and crown gear; Cylinder cam with multiple lobes.
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Plate 61: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; machine crank; lift pump; flap valve; horizontal working beam; flywheel.
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Plate 127: Grain mill powered by two men
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear; flywheel.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 128: Grain mill powered by two men
- 1588
Millstone can be raised or lowered by wedges.
Mechanics: vertical crankshaft; crank and rocker; crank and connecting rod.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 126: Grain mill powered by two men
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; lantern and crown gear; chain drive; flywheel.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 125: Grain mill powered by two men
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; lantern and crown gear; chain drive; flywheel.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 123: Grain mill powered by single person
- 1588
Mechanics: inclined treadwheel; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 124: Double grain mill powered by two men
- 1588
Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 122: Grain mill powered by horse
- 1588
Millstone can be raised or lowered by wedges.
Mechanics: horse whim; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 121: Grain mill powered by horse
- 1588
Millstone can be raised or lowered by wedges.
Mechanics: horse whim; spur gear and lantern.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Mills and mill-work, Machinery
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Plate 120: Grain mill powered by water current or horse
- 1588
Millstone can be raised and lowered by counterweights.
Mechanics: horse whim; spur gear and lantern.
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Plate 119: Grain mill powered by channel current
- 1588
Millstone can be raised or lowered by a wedge. This mill grinds and sifts flour at same time.
Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; lantern and crown gear.
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Plate 118: Grain mill powered by channel current
- 1588
Millstone can be raised and lowered by a lever.
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lantern and crown gear.
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Plate 116: Grain mill powered by water running off an elevated pool or fountain
- 1588
The water is then pumped back to the source.
Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; lantern and crown gear; crank and connecting rod.
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Plate 117: Grain mill powered by river current
- 1588
Millstone can be raised and lowered by screws to accommodate change in river levels. Boards attached to beam S, which can be raised or lowered, modulate the river's force through the mill.
Mechanics: undershot…
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Plate 115: Grain mill powered by channel running off an elevated pool
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal waterwheel; spur gear and lantern.
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