The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 239
ything alike. It is this pressure of the atmosphere which makes ittheoretically possible to raise a column of water to a height of 34 feet by the useof the suction pump. The reason for this lies in the fact that a column of waterone inch square and 34 feet high will weigh about 14.7 pounds, being… … Fig. 36. Showing two types of pumps Plumbing 215 ordinary pump is not sufficiently tight to produce a perfect vacuum, thereforethe height to which the water may actually be raised is somewhat below this. It isgenerally considered to be 25 feet. The working of an ordinary suction pump is shown in…
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