Euler Analysis of a Machine for Raising Waters Proposed by Mr. de Mour

Abstract

We revisited an analysis made by Euler in a memoir of 1753 Sur une nouvelle manière d’élever de l’eau propose par M. de Mour (“On a new method to raise water proposed by Mr. de Mour”), addressing a type of water sprinkler, consisting of an inclined tube with its lower end immersed into water, and discharging water at its top by turning a vertical axis to which the inclined tube is attached.