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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.

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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Plate 101: Device for draining water from a swamp or pool by river current
- Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; Archimedean screw; angle spur gears; lantern and crown gear.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
Rare books, Engravings

Plate 100: Device for draining water from a swamp or foundation by river current
- Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; horizontal working beam; crank and connecting rod.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Pumping machinery, Reciprocating pumps, Water-power, Machinery
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Plate 99: Device for draining water from a swamp or foundation by river current
- Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
Rare books, Engravings

Plate 98: Device for draining water from a swamp or foundation by river current
- Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; chain of buckets.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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Plate 96: Device for raising water from a river or pool by river current
- Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
- 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 97: Device for draining water from a marsh, pool, or foundation by river current
- Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; horizontal working beam; crank and connecting rod.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Pumping machinery, Reciprocating pumps, Water-power, Machinery
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Plate 95: Device for raising water up a mountain
- Part of Le diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli
- 1588
The plate-designer's schematic mountains echo the peaks and valleys of the parallel reciprocating bars, which are are also known as stangenkunst.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; noria; rocking troughs; double…
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Water-wheels, Machinery
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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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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
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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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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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
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 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
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
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.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Pumping machinery, Reciprocating pumps, Water-power, Machinery
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
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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