A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine Issue 32707 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature |
| Author | Thomas Ewbank |
| Publisher | Tilt and Bogue, 1842 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 May 2008 |
| Length | 582 pages |
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