Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
181. Figure 26.—Single-cylinder suction pump.—This Fig. 26. … the most common of all pumps, beingeinployed to draw water from house-cis-terns, and consists of an open cylinder,piston, and the two usual valves. Whentlic cylinder is extended much above theupper valve, the water above this valvebeing lifted instead of sucked, it istermed the suction and…
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