N. Hawkins

BY WILLIAM ROGERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS Part ONE.

INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS

GLOSSARY OF PUMP AND HYDRAULIC TERMS.

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

ELEMENTARY HYDRAULICS.

FLOW OF WATER UNDER PRESSURE.

WATER PRESSURE MACHINES

HYDRAULIC APPARATUS.

CLASSIFICATION OF PUMPS AND PUMPING ENGINES.

POWER PUMPS

THE ELECTRIC PUMP

THE STEAM PUMP.

THE DUPLEX PUMP

SPECIFICATIONS OF THE National Board of Fire Underwriters FOR

THE INDEX to Part One of Rogers Pumps and Hydraulics .

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

PUMPS

AND

HYDRAULICS.

IN TWO PARTS.

Part One.

“There are many fingers pointing to the value of a training in science, as the one thing needful to make the man, who shall rise above his fellows.”—Frank Allen.

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 is an incident rather than the principal equipment in any trade or occupation.”

PUMPS

—AND—

HYDRAULICS