Mining the Archives - Paternoster Pumps

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Georgio Agricola, paternoster chain pump in De re metallica libri XII, 1556
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Daniele Barbaro, paternoster chain pump in Vitruvius: I dieci libri dell' architettura, 1567
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Georgio Agricola, paternoster chain pump in De re metallica libri XII, 1556
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Old images found from website:

database machine drawings

Wolfgang Lefèvre & Marcus Popplow

MPIWG 2006-2009

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