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Rare books, Engravings

Plate 89: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: hand crank; bucket; spur gear and lantern; flywheel.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Wells, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 87: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a cistern

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; chain of buckets; spur gear and lantern; roller shaft bearing.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Cisterns, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 86: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: inertia chain; bucket; flywheel; roller shaft bearing.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Wells, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 85: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: vertical crankshaft; bucket; spur gear and lantern.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Wells, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 84: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: vertical crankshaft; bucket; lantern and crown gear; flywheel.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Wells, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 83: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: external vertical treadwheel; bucket; spur gear and lantern.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Wells, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 82: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: hand crank; bucket; spur gear and lantern; flywheel.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Wells, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 81: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: external vertical treadwheel; bucket; spur gear and lantern.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Wells, Machinery

97 items

Handbooks and manuals

GC-4 Gas Chromatograph

Beckman Instructions 1324-A

1967-Jul

Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the successful Watts Manufacturing Company. Later that year, Beckman Instruments produced its first gas chromatograph, the GC-1,…

Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Gas chromatography, Gas chromatography--Instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.

Photographs, Portraits

Portrait of George O. Curme, Jr. (1888-1976)

1930s – circa

Portrait of George O. Curme, Jr. (1888-1976), popularly known as the father of ethylene and for his pioneering work on applications for by-products of petroleum processing.

Born in Mount Vernon, Iowa on December 24,…

Subject Chemical industry, Union Carbide Corporation, Chemists, Petroleum, Portraits, Ethylene, Curme, George O. (George Oliver), 1888-

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 54: Device for raising water from a low place by canal current

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; toroidal force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; lantern and rack; horizontal working beam; roller guides.

Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
Subject Pumping machinery, Reciprocating pumps, Water-power, Machinery

Rare books, Engravings

Plate 53: Device for raising water from a river or low place by river current

Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

1588

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; oscillating double-wing pump; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear.