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From the earliest "tympan", (a sort of drum propelled
by a man walking inside it to turn it like a wheel), to the simple hand-pump, standard
nowadays, man has never stopped inventing machines for raising water to houses situated at
a higher level than the source of water itself. In this system, the pump was powered by the paddlewheel, which was turned using the river's current. Pipes carried the water from the storage tank to the houses. Click on the picture to go back to the Museum |
