Veras tovpumpe

International names:

Vera's Pump; Vera's hydraulische Maschine; Machine hydraulique de M. Vera; Machina hydraulica funicularis

English description:

Wool cord transporting water by adhesion from lower glass jar to upper brass cylindrical housing

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Pump. Vera's hydraulic. Wool cord Dia5 transporting water by adhesion from lower glass jar to upper brass cylindrical housing Dia 150. Mahogany base415x345. Mahogany stand and turning wheel. Overall H990.Ref: AWH Phys Cab Hefte 1 p16. Desaguliers (1744) XXXIV.Not signed1800 app (g)

• Category: Water
• Hauch number: A27
• Inventory number: 350
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 20

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §47
• Cabinet 1: bd1. p 16; pl.3 fig 5

• Literature:
• Martinus van Marum: 75
• Cataloque of Mechanical Instruments, Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze: 2,078

• Vera(1780);
  Landriani(1782);
  Sigaud de la Fond(1782) s.463;
  Gehler(1787-96) IV s 436;
  Adams(1794) III s. 493;
  Fischer(1798-1827) V p.207 (fig.16)
  Marbach(1834-37) I s 28;