Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 717
move at a slow speed when running at rated capacity. Electric Pumps.—The numerous a{)|)lications of electricity to pumping purposes whichhave been made during the last five years simply amount in most cases to the attachment toany form of jjumping machine of an electric motor. Quite recently such… … Fig. 8.—Electric-motor pump. through copper wires or rods, thus dispensing with the cumbrous reciprocating pump-rodsused in the Cornish system of mine pumps, or with the steam pipes used with direct-actingsteam-pumps. Fig. 8 illustrates an electric motor applied to a duplex water-works…
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