Artificially drilled well in a depression below the groundwater table

Engineering: drills for boring artesian wells. Lithograph by Martin and Hood, 1852, after C.J. Light.

A father dips his displeased child into water from the new Artesian well in Grenelle; he emerges covered in filth. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

Two gentlemen inspect the water from the new Artesian well in Grenelle, just outside Paris. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

Dupont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : Report, analysis, and medical properties of its water, with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith.

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Engineering: drills for boring artesian wells. Lithograph by Martin and Hood, 1852, after C.J. Light.

A father dips his displeased child into water from the new Artesian well in Grenelle; he emerges covered in filth. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

Two gentlemen inspect the water from the new Artesian well in Grenelle, just outside Paris. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

Dupont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : Report, analysis, and medical properties of its water, with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith.