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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 73: Windmill for drawing water from a well
- 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
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Plate 72: Device for raising water from a low place by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; chain equalizer; roller guides.
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Plate 71: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Wells, Machinery
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Plate 70: Device for raising water from a canal
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.
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Plate 6: Device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; horizontal crankshaft; lift pump; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; crank and connecting rod; flywheel.
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Plate 69: Device for raising water from a low place by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear.
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Plate 68: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; vertical crankshaft; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; crank and connecting rod; flywheel.
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Plate 67: Device for raising water from a river
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; double worm and reversing racks; roller guides.
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Plate 66: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; machine crank; bellows pump; horizontal working beam; flywheel.
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Plate 65: Device for raising water from a canal
- 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…
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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 63: Device for raising water from a canal
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; motion converter (rotating to linear).
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Plate 62: Device for draining water from a pool or marsh by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lift pump; lantern and crown gear; Cylinder cam with multiple lobes.
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Plate 61: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
Mechanics: hand crank; machine crank; lift pump; flap valve; horizontal working beam; flywheel.
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Plate 60: Device for raising water from a low place by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; lantern and crown gear; Three-lobed disc cam; bell crank.
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Plate 5: Device for raising water by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; lift pump; conical valve; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; crank and connecting rod; slotted-head screw.
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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 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 57: Device for raising water from a canal
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; cylinder cam with single lobe; roller guides.
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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 55: Device for raising water from a pond by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; lantern and crown gear; grooved eccentric cam; bell crank.
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Plate 54: Device for raising water from a low place by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; toroidal force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; lantern and rack; horizontal working beam; roller guides.
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Plate 53: Device for raising water from a river or low place by river current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; oscillating double-wing pump; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear.
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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