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    Pumps and Hydraulic Rams: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams, Paul Hasluck
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    Pumps and Hydraulic Rams: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams, Paul Hasluck

    By Richard Jemmett

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    About this ebook

    Written by Paul Hasluck this book was published in 1907. The book has been re-published from the original and contains the whole script, diagrams and formulas. The book has been reformatted to help reading on the ebook readers and is not just a scanned copy of the original

    The formal title is Pumps and Hydraulic Rams with numerous engravings and diagrams. Chapters include:

    Suction Pumps and Lift Pumps
    Making Simple Suction Pumps
    Pump Cup Leathers
    Pump Valves
    Ram or Plunger Pumps
    Making Bucket and Plunger Pump
    Construction of Plumber’s Force Pump
    Wooden Pumps
    Small Pumps for Special Purposes
    Centrifugal Pumps
    Air-lift, Mammoth, and Pulsometer Pumps
    Hydraulic Rams

    Taken form the beginning of the book....'Years ago, before the majority of towns was supplied with water from companies' mains, there was an enormous number of pumps in everyday use for domestic purposes, and most of these were of either the suction type (jack pumps) or of that type known as the lift, force, or engine. Both types of pumps have still an extensive use in country districts, and more commonly come into the hands of the fitter and repairer than any other kind. '

    The hydraulic ram chapter is of particular interest. The chapter starts as follows..... 'Hydraulic rams are water-raising appliances in a class by themselves. The shock that is commonly noticed on quickly closing a fullway cock and sud-denly stopping the flow of water in long lengths of pipe is the power employed in the hydraulic ram.

    The hydraulic ram was invented in 1772 by Whitehurst, and about the same time it was accidentally discovered by a Bristol plumber, who was engaged in a hospital in that city fixing long lengths of lead piping, which had a considerable head of water on them. To the extreme end of one of the pipes he was fixing, and at the lowest point, he had soldered an ordinary ground bib tap, with a plug that was very easily turned. When turning off the tap quickly, he found that the pipe had split and burst. After repairing it, he found the same thing occurring again every time he closed the tap suddenly. This caused him to consider, and he came to the conclusion that the evil was caused by the sudden closing of the tap arresting the flow, or momentum, of the water in the pipe plus the weight of water in the length of pipe, exerting a blow, generated by the excess of pressure and causing the pipe to burst. After trying many experiments in order to remedy this defect, the plumber soldered a small pipe behind the tap, carried it up the wall, and discharged it over the top of the cistern that supplied the tap. Every time the tap was used, he found that the water rushed back into the cistern with great force and noise. As this seemed very strange, he determined to test the matter, and he then continued the pipe up to a cistern on the roof of the house, which he found could be supplied with water from a lower cistern by simply turning the tap quickly on or off.'

    The book contains 170 illustrations that are carefully described by the writer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Jemmett
    Release dateAug 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465886002
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    Pumps and Hydraulic Rams: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams, Paul Hasluck
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    Richard Jemmett

    Richard Jemmett's keen interest in the generation and use of energy has helped to shape his formal career and provide an incentive to write on the subject. He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1980 with a degree in fuel and energy engineering and has held various positions within energy and consultancy companies working in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has been a Board Director of two energy related companies and a past president of the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers. Richard has written many articles, essays, and conference presentations on utility industry strategy, energy industry development, energy market deregulation, renewable energy, distributed generation and high reliability organisational design.

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