Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 487
ession of lifts, in which the water of the lowest lift is delivered to the pump nextabove it, and so on in succession until the water reaches the surface. The plunger-pump is used in allthese lifts except the lowest, where the lifting-pump is used, with the view of obviating inconvenience,should… … Scale.—4 feet=3 in. * Bourne on the Steam Engine. t See Cornish Engine. ENGINES, DETAILS OF. 470 4 1358. ft ft ml IP
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