Industry : a magazine devoted to science, engineering, and the mechanic arts, especially on the Pacific Coast (1888)
San Francisco : Industrial Pub. Co. · leaf 559
commission who thus disposed of a subject that had twenty years before been carefully investigated by such men as Sir John Rennie, Professor Cowper, Mr. Whitelaw, Dr. James Black, Professor Rankine, and many others. The most astonishing part is, however, that this report was passed and signed by… … Fig. 15. Fig. 15, and well worthy of attention here as being the first of its type, and almost identical with Bessemer' s of 1845 and 1849. It is, in fact, the better machine if carefully compared, but subject, like nearly all disc pumps, to lateral thrust upon the impeller that would cause…
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