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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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  • Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600112
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  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 75: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a deep well

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: hand crank; bucket; flywheel.

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

    Plate 74: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 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
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 73: Windmill for drawing water from a well

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Cap with sales can be rotated by rudder to catch optimal wind. This windmill 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.
    …

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Wind power, Pumping machinery, Wells, Windmills, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 72: 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; force pump; chain equalizer; roller guides.

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

    Plate 71: 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; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.

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

    Plate 70: Device for raising water from a canal

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.

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

    Plate 69: 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; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear.

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

    Plate 68: 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; vertical crankshaft; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; crank and connecting rod; flywheel.

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

    Plate 67: Device for raising water from a river

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; double worm and reversing racks; roller guides.

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

    Plate 66: 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; bellows pump; horizontal working beam; flywheel.

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

    Plate 65: Device for raising water from a canal

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

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

    Plate 64: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well

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

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

    Plate 63: Device for raising water from a canal

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; motion converter (rotating to linear).

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

    Plate 62: Device for draining water from a pool or marsh by river current

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lift pump; lantern and crown gear; Cylinder cam with multiple lobes.

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

    Plate 61: 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; horizontal working beam; flywheel.

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

    Plate 120: Grain mill powered by water current or horse

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Millstone can be raised and lowered by counterweights.

    Mechanics: horse whim; spur gear and lantern.

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 119: Grain mill powered by channel current

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

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 118: Grain mill powered by channel current

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Millstone can be raised and lowered by a lever.

    Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lantern and crown gear.

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 116: Grain mill powered by water running off an elevated pool or fountain

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

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 117: Grain mill powered by river current

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

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 115: Grain mill powered by channel running off an elevated pool

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: horizontal waterwheel; spur gear and lantern.

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 114: Grain mill powered by channel current

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: horizontal waterwheel.

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 113: Grain mill powered by channel current

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; spur gear and lantern; lantern and crown gear.

    • Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
    • Subject Water-power, Mills and mill-work, Machinery
  • Rare books, Engravings

    Plate 112: Cofferdam used to drain relatively low water

    • Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
    • 1588

    Workmen use shadoofs, counterweighted buckets on poles, to drain water from the section walled off by the cofferdam in order to secure foundations for construction.

    Mechanics: shadoof.

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

    Plate 111: Cofferdam used to drain relatively high water

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