Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 293
end of thevertical shaft was immersed in water, and whenrotary motion was given to the machine, the centri- CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS. 277 fugal action propelled the water from the ends of thearms, and the water rose in the vertical shaft to sup-ply its place. The effect in a pnmp of this constrnction is… … evident, therefore, that a Centrifugal Pump of thatconstruction could not raise a column of water higherthan the pressure of the atmosphere would force itup, which would be about thirty feet. Mr. Appolds Centrifugal Pump, which consti- 278 GREAT FACTS. tuted one of the most remarkable features of…
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