Pumping

Examples

• It was formerly used for pumping a mine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Pumping over independent voters! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• How, for instance, a small engine pumping continuously could thus supply many large engines working intermittently. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The water may be brought to the surface either by laboriously raising it, bucket by bucket, or by the less arduous method of pumping. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The first steam-engines in the eighteenth century were pumping engines used to keep water out of the newly opened coal mines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One company applied the idea of pumping the liquid on the fire in 1909. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The age of fear and speculation as to steam ceased when the Marquis set his engine to pumping water, and from that time inventors went on to put the arm of steam to work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The lower view shows a suction dredge, which operates on soft mud or sands, pumping the discharge through the pipe seen at the left of the illustration. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then as to their use, engines are known as stationary, pumping, portable, locomotive or marine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The first practical application of steam as a working force was to pumping, as has been stated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This is accomplished by a central pumping and filtering plant and the return of the oil from all parts of the works by gravity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The steam engine, even the primitive pumping engine, could not develop before sheet iron was available. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The piston and pump rods were connected to the opposite ends of a working beam of a pumping engine, as in some modern engines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Cities using such a water supply thus have the double expense of pumping and filtration. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Then followed the combined invention of Newcomen, Cawley and Savery, in 1705, of the most successful pumping engine up to that time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The hydraulic pressure for this 5,000-ton press is furnished by Whitworth pumping engines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the first place he took an early opportunity of pumping Miss Briggs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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