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THE PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUMPING MACHINERY (STEAM AND WATER PRESSURE).
With Practical Illustrations of Engines and Pumps applied to Mining, Town Water Supply, Drainage of Lands, &c., also Economy and Efficiency Trials of Pumping Machinery.
By HENRY DAVEY,
Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, F.G.S., &c.
Contents—Early History of Pumping Engines—Steam Pumping Engines—Pumps and Pump Valves—General Principles of Non-Rotative Pumping Engines—The Cornish Engine, Simple and Compound—Types of Mining Engines—Pit Work—Shaft Sinking—Hydraulic Transmission of Power in Mines—Valve Gears of Pumping Engines—Water Pressure Pumping Engines—Water Works Engines—Pumping Engine Economy and Trials of Pumping Machinery—Centrifugal and other Low-Lift Pumps—Hydraulic Rams. Pumping Mains, &c.—Index.
"By the 'one' English Engineer who probably knows more about Pumping Machinery than any other.' ... A volume recording the results of long experience and study."—The Engineer.
"Undoubtedly the best and most practical treatise on Pumping Machinery that has yet been published."—Mining Journal.