Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine, 1556 (1956). Artist: Unknown # 2361727

Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine, 1556 (1956). Artist: Unknown

2-361-727 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine, 1556 (1956). From De re Metallica by Georgius Agricola. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.