Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters (1856)
Lloyd, James T. [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co.; Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co. · leaf 338
p in operation that eclipses them allin rc2;ard to utility and power, we mean Palmers Marine Pump, justly entitledto the name of the Invincible. Palmers Marine Pump is constructed on anentire new principle, combining the most simple and gigantic means for raisingsunken vessels. This great Marine… … palmers marine pump as worked ey hand.in diameter. In the chamber is a perpendicular screw wheel, which, when in ope-ration, isTOade rapidly to revolve, and thus on the principles of reaction and ai-mospheric pressure, the water is raised and discharged at the rate of seventeenthousand gallons per…
