Author: WEIDLER, J.F
Title: Tractatus de machinis hydraulicis tot terrarum orbe maximis Marlyensi et Londinensi et aliis rarioribus similibus....Ed. sec.auct.
Description: Wittenberg, C.S. Henning, 1733. 4to. W.5 fold.pls. Hlf.vellum (old style). (VIII, 96 pp.). (watersp.). Pogg. II, 1281: Only description of what was considered in its time as a technical miracle, the hydraulical waterworks of Marly (to irrigate the parks of Versailles) and the waterworks along the Thames, near London. W.describes a kind of steam-engine and an engine for rising water. Not in Roberts & Trent.

Keywords: river irrigation hydraulics W66 machines technology