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The Multiplying Wheel Bucket Engine 1728

The Multiplying Wheel Bucket Engine 1728

Image Reference: 11574
Artist/Photographer: Beighton, Henry; Kirkall, F.; Carpenter, James Haynes
Image Date: 1728
Measurements: 42 x 31 cm
Medium: print
Collection: Loose prints
Library Reference: LP Z3
Credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Library: Bath Record Office : Archives & Local Studies

Description: For raising water to supply Gentlemen's Seats and gardens, which moves continually by a small Fall of Water, without the help of Man or Beast, Water Wheel, Wind or Fire and will never cease to move as long as the Springs yield any Water, or the Materials of the Engine shall last. Approved by Sir Isaac Newton. Erected at Chicheley Hall, the seat of Sir John Chester Bart.
Henry Beighton F.R.S. delin. F. Kirkall, sculp. This Print with the explanation Sold by James Haynes Carpenter on Clerkenwell Green.

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