Pumps and Hydraulics, Part 1 (of 2)Hawkins, N. (Nehemiah)
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Pumps and Hydraulics, Part 1 (of 2)
Hawkins, N. (Nehemiah)
Hydraulic machinery; Pumping machinery
=Duplex fire pump=, shop name and shop number required on plate
attached to underwriters, 355
underwriters steam end, 356-366
=oil pumps=, ills. and des., 339
power pump not to be confounded with “Duplex pumps”, 230
pump, ills. and des., 331-398
outside packed plunger pattern for high pressure, 341
setting valves of, 338
pumps, history of, 65, 69
only acceptable for fire pumps, 351
with Deane switch valve, 343
Worthington admiralty pattern of, ills. and des., 337
steam fire pump, underwriters, water end of, 367-380
steam pump, important note, 333
valve motion, 333-334
underwriters steam, fire pump, 343-398
“=Dutchman=,” def., 21
=“Duty” of pumps=, def., 20
=Dynamics=, def., 245
=Dynamo=, def., 247
early Edison type, 248
electric current from a, how reversed, 264
five principal parts, 247
when it becomes a motor, 260
=Dynamometer=, turbine, des., 128
=Eccentrics of the triplex power pump=, how set, 232
=Edison dynamo=, early type, 248
=Efficiency of an electric pump=, 268
=Efflux of water= under pressure, 105-113
=Elbow=, def., 21
shown in piping, ills. and des., 223
=Electric circuit breakers=, 255
=Electric current=, action of, 257
from a dynamo, how reversed, 264
=Electric drive for fire pumps=, ills. and des., 273
house tank pumping plant, ills. and des., 269
=Electricity and electrical machinery=, 243
how classified and defined, 244
how measured, 246
important note, 243
in vibration, 244
vitreous, negative, positive, etc., 245
whence derived, 243
=Electric mining pumps=, ills. and des., 274-276
=Electric motor and air pump=, ills. and des., 271
motor, des., 249
operating a portable track pump, ills. and des., 276
pump, ills. and des., 272-273
pump, 241-276
pumping installation, notable example, 275
pumping machinery, 267-276
pumps, care and management, 268
properly power pumps, 208
why so called, 187
=Electric-rheostat=, transformer, compensator, 256
=Electric-switches and switchboards=, 254-255
=Electro-magnets=, ills. and des., 259
=Electro-motive force=, def., 246
=Elementary hydraulics=, 71-73
=Elements, phial of four=, (mercury, water, alcohol and petroleum)
des., 81
=Elevator pumps=, why so called, 187
=Emery=, specific gravity of, 96
=E. M. F.=, def., 246
=Energy=, mechanical and electrical, how transformed, 260
=Engineering=, as a branch of hydraulics, 74
=Engine, Rife hydraulic=, 177-179
=English unit of heat=, ills. and des., 284
=Equilibrium of superposed liquids=, data, 81
=Equilibrium-valve=, def., 21
=Ewbank, Thomas=, author, ref. to, 46
“=Ewbank’s hydraulics=,” credit given for use of, 52
=Ewers, golden=, used by rich Egyptians, 38
=Expansion joint=, des., 21
=Face=, def., 21
=Factor of safety=, def., 22
=Feather, or sunk key=, def., 22
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