This page has a good bibliography at the bottom.
http://www.bodiehistory.com/drainage.htm
Have you thought of trying Buckley's history of Dolcoath?
Tanya
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> Robert Waterhouse
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> Subject: Early C19 pumping machinery design
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> Dear List,
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> Can anyone tell me how (if at all) very early C19 pumping machinery in
> shafts differed from the later (ie: c.1840-1900) setups, as shown in the
> Harveys and Williams catalogues.
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> I am aware that they were bucket-lifts, plungers being a later refinement,
> but don't know whether cast iron valve chests were in use, or even what
> they
> and their pipework looked like.
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> I am trying to draw accurate elevations of such things for a book
> illustration and don't want to get anything wrong - I know how pedantic
> mining historians can be - I am one after all!
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> The geographical area concerned is Devon/Cornwall.
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> Yours,
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> Robert Waterhouse
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