Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 615
uccessful results. C. S., Jr. PUMPING ENGINES. It has become customary in this country to apply the term pumpingen-gine to the large reciprocating pumping machines used for supplying cities and towns with water,draining lakes and marshes, and other similar extensive work. A pumping engine, strictly… … A very excellent method of arrangingresents an ordinary countershaft, having
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