id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 31024 Multhauf, Robert P. Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later .txt text/plain 3731 264 67 MINE PUMPING IN AGRICOLA'S TIME AND LATER detailed mining landscapes on 16th-century German coins in the National development of what Agricola calls _tractoriae_--hauling machines. the region known to Agricola (Erzgebirge) in the 13th century.[3] introduction of machinery for removing ores and water from deep mines. Bechtel speaks have been put as much as a century later.[5] In any case, MINE-PUMPING MACHINERY ILLUSTRATED BY BRUNSWICK MULTIPLE TALERS time,[6] their use in mining would appear to date from the mid-14th Figure 2 shows two shaft-houses covering pumps driven by to a mine." The most powerful machine then in use for deep mines appears many descriptions and drawings showing its use in the mines, driving mines changed in the century after him far more than has been crank was centuries old at this time, and had been applied to pumping arrangement very like that described by Agricola, although not in mining ./cache/31024.txt ./txt/31024.txt