Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine mb-code CB057244 Duke of Gloucester and William

Duke of Gloucester and William

frontispiece to Sphaera mvndi

View of the new Westminster Bridge looking down river with the Palace of Westminster on the left and boats moored on the bank as well as on the River Thames

by Thomas Archer

Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine mb-code CB057244 Duke of Gloucester and WilliamMaking and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine, 1556 (1956). From De re Metallica by Georgius Agricola. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.