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PUMPS
AND
HYDRAULICS.
IN TWO PARTS.
Part One.
“There are many fingers pointing to the value of a training inscience, as the one thing needful to make the man, who shall rise abovehis fellows.”—Frank Allen.
“The motto marked upon our foreheads, written upon our door-posts,channeled in the earth, and wafted upon the waves is and must be,‘Labour is honorable and Idleness is dishonorable.’”—Carlyle.
This work is respectfully dedicated to
Maj. ABRAM B. GARNER,
of Newark, N. J.,
—AND—
ALBERTO H. CAFFEE, Esq.,
of New York City.
‘Gentlemen without fear and without reproach.’
“Thought is the principal factor in all mechanical work; the mechanical effort isan incident rather than the principal equipment in any trade or occupation.”
“Any trade is easily learned by an apt scholar who uses his reasoning facultiesand makes a study of cause and effect.”—CHAS. J. MASON.
PUMPS
—AND—
HYDRAULICS
—BY—
WILLIAM ROGERS
Author of “Drawing and Design,” etc.
RELATING TO
HAND PUMPS; POWER PUMPS; PARTS OF PUMPS; ELECTRICALLY DRIVENPUMPS; STEAM PUMPS, SINGLE, DUPLEX AND COMPOUND; PUMPINGENGINES, HIGH DUTY AND TRIPLE EXPANSION; THE STEAM FIREENGINE; UNDERWRITERS’ PUMPS; MINING PUMPS; AIR ANDVACUUM PUMPS; COMPRESSORS; CENTRIFUGAL AND ROTARYPUMPS; THE PULSOMETER; JET PUMPS AND THE INJECTOR;UTILITIES AND ACCESSORIES; VALVE SETTING; MANAGEMENT;CALCULATIONS, RULES AND TABLES.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
ALSO
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; GLOSSARY OF PUMP TERMS; HISTORICALINTRODUCTION, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS; THE ELEMENTS OF HYDRO-MECHANICS,HYDROSTATICS AND PNEUMATICS; GRAVITY AND FRICTION;HYDRAULIC MEMORANDA; LAWS GOVERNING FLUIDS; WATERPRESSURE MACHINES; PUMPS AS HYDRAULIC MACHINES, ETC.
PART ONE.
PUBLISHED BY
THEO. AUDEL & COMPANY
72 FIFTH AVE.,...