 | William Dampier - Buccaneers - 1699 - 592 pages
...Fire by a great bunch of fine Feathers faftned to one end of the ftick, which clofing up the infide of the Cylinder, drives the Air out of the Cylinder through the Pipe : Two of thefe Trunks or Cylinders are placed Ib nigh together, that a Man ftanding between them may work them... | |
 | William Dampier - Australia - 1703 - 774 pages
...Fire by a great bunch of fine Feathers faftned to one end of the Stick, which ciofing up the infide of the Cylinder, drives the Air out of the Cylinder through the Pipe : Two of thefe Trunks or Cylinders are placed fo nigh together, that a Man {tanding between them may work them... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Discoveries in geography - 1812 - 1030 pages
...fire by a great bunch of fine feathers fattened to one end of the flick, which clofing up the infide of the cylinder, drives the air out of the cylinder through the pipe : two of thefe trunks or cylinders are placed fo nigh together, that a man flanding between them may work them... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Fire engines - 1842 - 612 pages
...through which the wind is driven to the fire by a great bunch of fine feathers, fastened to one end of a stick, which closing up the inside of the cylinder,...standing between them may work them both at once, one with each hand."i Here we have both the single and double chambered forcing-pump; and although... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...through which the wind is driven to the fire by a great bunch of fine feathers, fastened to one end of a stick, which closing up the inside of the cylinder,...standing between them may work them both at once, one with each hand."t Here we have both the single and double chambered forcing-pump; and although... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Pumping machinery - 1851 - 646 pages
...•which the wind is driven to the fire by a great bunch of fine feathers, fastened to one end of a stick, which closing up the inside of the cylinder,...standing between them may work them both at once, one with each hand."" Here we have both the single and double chambered forcing-pump; and although... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic engineering - 1876 - 1228 pages
...through which the wind is driven to the fire by a great bunch of fine feathers, fastened to one end of a stick, which closing up the inside of the cylinder,...standing between them may work them both at once, one with each hand."" Here we have both the single and double chambered forciiur-pump; and although... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Pumping machinery - 1876 - 640 pages
...through which the wind is driven to the fire by a great bunch of fine feathers, fastened to one end of a stick, which closing up the inside of the cylinder,...placed so nigh together, that a man standing between tV.em may work them both at once, one with each hand."" Here we have both the single and double chambered... | |
 | Anthropology - 1880 - 534 pages
...a wooden cylinder, the trunk of a tree about 3 feet long, bored hollow like a pump, set upright in the ground, on which the fire itself is made. Near...pipe. Two of these trunks or cylinders are placed so high together that a man standing between them may work them both alternately, one with each hand."*... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 428 pages
...through which the wind was driven to the fire by the agitation of a great bunch of feathers attached to one end of the stick, which, closing up the inside of the cylinder, drove the air out of the cylinder and through the pipe. Two of these trunks or cylinders were set so... | |
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... upright on the ground ; on which the fire itself is made. Near the lower end there is a small hole in the side of the trunk next the fire made to receive a pipe ; through •which the wind is driven to the fire by a great bunch of fine feathers, fastened... 
