This digital collection features a broad spectrum of materials related to water quality, testing, and analysis, including advertisements, museum objects, oral history interviews, photographs, and print materials. Other subjects represented in the collection include distillation and filtration, water-power, water-hardness and softening, and the extraction of magnesium from seawater.
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Plate 82: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; bucket; spur gear and lantern; flywheel.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 4: Device for raising water from a river
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; horizontal working beam.
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Plate 29: Device for raising water from a river, pond, or lake by river or canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; lift pump; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear; horizontal working beam; crank and connecting rod.
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Plate 27: Device for raising water from a low place by river or canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lift pump; grooved eccentric cam; horizontal working beam; roller guides.
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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 45: Device for raising water from a canal, river, or spring
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria; Archimedean screw; angle crown gears; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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Plate 38: Device for raising water from a spring by channel current
- 1588
Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; sliding-vane rotary pump.
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Plate 56: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well or cistern
- 1588
This device uses a paternoster pump, named for its resemblance to a rosary. Also known as a "rag and chain" pump or a "rubber bucket chain" pump.
Mechanics: hand crank; paternoster chain pump; flywheel.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Pumping machinery, Cisterns, Wells, Machinery, Hand pumps
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Plate 59: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal spoked treadwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; horizontal working beam.
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Plate 9: Device for raising water from a low place by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; lantern and rack; lantern and crown gear; roller guides.
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Plate 30: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; horizontal crankshaft; lift pump; horizontal working beam; crank and connecting rod; flywheel.
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Plate 41: Device for raising water from a river
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria; spur gear and lantern.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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Plate 37: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
The man looking out of the grilled window in the background foreshadows the section on screw-jacks (Plates 154–167).
Mechanics: machine crank; inertia chain; lift pump; flap valve.
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Plate 91: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 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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Plate 58: Device for raising water from a river
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear; horizontal working beam; bell crank.
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Plate 42: Device for raising water from a canal
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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Plate 86: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: inertia chain; bucket; flywheel; roller shaft bearing.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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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 52: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 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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Plate 96: Device for raising water from a river or pool by river current
- 1588
The water is not enclosed within this device.
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria; rocking troughs; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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Plate 32: Single-person-operated device for raising water from a well or cistern
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; force pump; flap valve; interrupted lanterns and spur gear sectors; chain equalizer; flywheel.
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Plate 85: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a very deep well
- 1588
Mechanics: vertical crankshaft; bucket; spur gear and lantern.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 111: Cofferdam used to drain relatively high water
- 1588
Workmen use buckets to drain water from the section walled off by the cofferdam in order to secure foundations for construction.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Cofferdams, Machinery, Water
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Plate 74: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal spoked treadwheel; conical valve; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; motion converter (rotating to linear).
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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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.
