Comprehensive Pictures of The Great Exhibition includes the following text:
“Amongst the numerous fire-engines and pumps, the water-ram, by Messrs. Easton and Amos, may be mentioned as an exceedingly simple and effective apparatus, by which many country mansions are now supplied with water; the only indispensable requisite being the existence of a small stream in the neighbourhood. Close by, stood the model of Maplin’s light-house, founded on Mitchell’s screw piles, the plan of which is admirable for sandy bottoms where piles are driven in with great difficulty”.
