Ancient and modern engineering and the Isthmian canal (1903)
Burr, William H. (William Hubert), 1851-1934 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 277
PUMPING AND PUMPS. 255 of three classes of machinery, the boilers, the steam-engines, and the pumps. There are various types of boilers as well as of engines and pumps, all, when judiciously designed and arranged, well adapted to the pumping-engine process. The pumps are … Skeleton Pumps. generally what are called displacement pumps ; that is, the water in the pump-cylinder is displaced by the reciprocating motion of a piston or plunger. These pumps may be either double- acting or single-acting ; in the former case, as the piston or plunger moves in one direction it…
Civil engineering · Canals, Interoceanic
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