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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 93: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; swinging-vane rotary pump; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; chain drive.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Pumping machinery, Wells, Rotary pumps, Machinery, Hand pumps
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 92: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  This device requires a relatively small amount of rope.

  Mechanics: inertia chain; bucket.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Wells, Machinery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 94: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; machine crank; force pump; spur gear and lantern; chain drive; chain equalizer.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Pumping machinery, Reciprocating pumps, Wells, Machinery, Hand pumps
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 91: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  This device requires a relatively small amount of rope.

  Mechanics: hand crank; bucket; flywheel.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Wells, Machinery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 90: 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 gears; spur gear and lantern.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Wells, Machinery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 88: 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.

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

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

  Plate 52: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: hand crank; swinging-vane rotary pump; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; flywheel; slotted-head screw.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Pumping machinery, Wells, Rotary pumps, Machinery, Hand pumps
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 51: Device for raising river, canal, or pond water by river current

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; swinging-vane rotary pump; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; slotted-head screw.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Pumping machinery, Water-power, Rotary pumps, Machinery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 49: Device for raising water from a river

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; gated-lobe rotary pump; spur gear and lantern.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Pumping machinery, Water-power, Rotary pumps, Machinery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 50: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: hand crank; machine crank; lift pump; flap valve; chain drive; flywheel.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Pumping machinery, Reciprocating pumps, Wells, Machinery, Hand pumps
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 48: Device for raising water from a river

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria; Archimedean screw; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 47: Device for raising water from a spring by canal current

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; Archimedean screw; lantern and crown gear.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 46: Device for raising water from a spring

  • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli

  • 1588

  Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria; Archimedean screw; spur gear and lantern; angle spur gears.

  • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
  • Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery