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 546
also as a fire engine. This pump has also been employed for water supply in the city of Savannah, Ga., and Cambridge,Mass. The duty at the latter place almost comes up to that of the best Cornish Engikes. Theengines consist each of two cylinders on the Wolf plan, with condensers. The cylinders are… … PUJrPS. C.^rektts Steam Pump. Figs. 31.56 and 41.57 represent two views of the pump, construct-ed to deliver ten gallons per minute at a height of 120 feet, the steam power being derived from atwo-horse portable high-pressure boiler, complete in itself, and weighing under 6 cwt. b40 PUMPS, STEAM.…
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