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 535
The common forcinr/ pump.—This pump. Fig. 3124, raises water from the well into the barrel on theprinciple of the suction pump just described, Fig. 3123, and then the pressure of the piston on thewater elevates it to any height that may be required. Here P is a solid piston working up and down in a…
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