This instrument is put up wherever a small stream of water can be utilized ; the water running into the trough raises the pounder by over-weight, and running out at the end in consequence of the incline, allows it to fall down again, with the iron-shod... International Exhibition, 1876 - Page 609by United States Centennial Commission - 1880Full view - About this book
| Catharine Ann Janvier - Pottery - 1880 - 332 pages
...These are worked by a stream of water, which running into the trough raises the pounder by over weight and running out at the end in consequence of the incline,...dropping into a stone mortar in which the materials are reduced to povvder." The Chinese also use little waterwheels, arranged on the banks of streams, and... | |
| Christopher Dresser - Architecture - 1882 - 494 pages
...the end in consequence of the incline, allows it to fall down again, with the iron-shod cross piece dropping into a stone mortar, in which the materials...decanted. " No other machinery, such as the quartz or glaze mills of foreign porcelain manufactories, is used, and the consequence is that all the material... | |
| Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), John Allen Howe - Clay - 1914 - 310 pages
...water-trough at the other end. This instrument is put up wherever a small stream of water can be utilised ; the water running into the trough raises the pounder...latter is then sifted, mixed with water, and decanted. f ' " No other machinery, such as the quartz- or glaze-mills of foreign porcelain manufactories, is... | |
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