A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 301
y atmospheric pumps extending to it, as inNo. 127. The cylinder of the atmospheric pumpterminates in the bottom of the cistern, and is plac-ed directly under that of the lifting one; the pistonsof both being attached to the same rod and workedby the same frame. Such was the construction oiNo. 127.… … 278 Lifting Pumps. [Book III. If the head of a common pump (No. 90) be closed, except an openingthrough which the rod works, or may be worked, it is then convertedinto a lifting pump, and will raise water to any elevation through a pipeattached to the spout. The earliest specimen that we have met…
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