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  2. Hand pump - Wikipedia

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    Hand pump. Animation of a suction hand pump. On the up stroke of the piston the foot valve opens and suction brings water into the pump head. On the following down stroke of the piston the valve on the piston opens up and allows water to flow above the piston. On the successive up stroke of the piston water is pushed out of the outlet.

  3. 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak - Wikipedia

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    The memorial pump was removed due to new construction in March 2016. It was replaced, on the pavement outside the pub, in 2019. A plaque affixed to the public house reads: The Red Granite kerbstone mark is the site of the historic Broad Street pump associated with Dr John Snow's discovery in 1854 that cholera is conveyed by water.

  4. Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes' screw

  5. Water pumping - Wikipedia

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    Water pumping. The pumping of water is a basic and practical technique, far more practical than scooping it up with one's hands or lifting it in a hand-held bucket. This is true whether the water is drawn from a fresh source, moved to a needed location, purified, or used for irrigation, washing, or sewage treatment, or for evacuating water from ...

  6. Schiller Woods magic water pump - Wikipedia

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    Schiller Woods magic water pump

  7. Cloonfush - Wikipedia

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    Until the late 1960s, there was no mains water supply to the village, with each household dependent on obtaining water from the hand water pump located in the village. A local committee was formed and a borehole was sunk near the old hand pump location. A pump house was erected over the borehole.

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