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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 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 115: Grain mill powered by channel running off an elevated pool
- 1588
Mechanics: horizontal waterwheel; spur gear and lantern.
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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 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 8: Single-person-operated device for drawing water from a well
- 1588
This is the only image showing a woman as the prime mover of a machine.
Mechanics: hand crank; force pump; conical valve; interrupted crown gear and lanterns; double worm and reversing racks; roller guides.
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Plate 26: Device for raising water from a low place by river or canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lift pump; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; double worm and reversing racks; horizontal working beam; roller guides.
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Plate 136: Timber sawmill to cut wood and make boards, powered by canal current
- 1588
Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; machine crank; bell crank; roller guides.
- Author Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600
- Subject Water-power, Sawmills, Machinery
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Beckman Water Quality System
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- Photographer Photomation
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Water quality, Water quality--Measurement, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Wherever there's water, there's pH...
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Advertisement about using various models of Beckman pH meters for monitoring water quality in industrial settings.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California…
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Beckman Water Quality System
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The Beckman Water Quality System incorporates Hach Company instruments.
- Photographer Photomation
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Water quality, Water quality--Measurement, Beckman Instruments, Inc.