Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 481
a succession 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 exeppt the lowest, where the lifting-pump is used, with the view of obviating… … Scale.—4 feet=3 in. * Bourne on tho Steam Engine. t See Cornish Engine. ENGINES, DETAILS OF. 470
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