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Drinking Fountain - Grade II* listed. Drinking Fountain. Listing Text 1. 5106 MARKET PLACE Drinking Fountain SO 9490 SW 4/38 14.9.49. II* 2. 1867. Designed by James Forsyth, sculptor of the Perseus Fountain at Witley Court, Worcestershire. Presented by the Earl of Dudley. Local stone.
In 1897, the original well was replaced and given its present signature structure by university president Edwin A. Alderman. In 1954, the university built benches, brick walls, and planted various flower beds and trees around the Old Well. Passers-by can drink from a marble water fountain supplying city water that sits in the center of the Old ...
A diagram of a pumpjack. A pumpjack is the overground drive for a reciprocating piston pump in an oil well. [1]It is used to mechanically lift liquid out of the well if there is not enough bottom hole pressure for the liquid to flow all the way to the surface.
Lion's Head Fountain 1878 Original: Lincoln Drive, Wissahickon Valley Current: Kelly Drive, East Fairmount Park (south of Strawberry Mansion Bridge) Fairmount Park Art Association Mrs. Richard Davis Wood, donor granite In its original location, c.1895. Note the metal cup chained to the fountain: Relocated to Kelly Drive, year [59] [60]
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The last of these fountains was a silo-esque 1927 "McColl" fountain. Public sentiment found the design of this fountain unappealing, and in 1936 a contest was held to design a replacement. The contest was won by Marcelline Gougler, a twenty-four-year-old University of Illinois art teacher who studied with Alfonso Iannelli. When the city ...
The screw pump is the oldest positive displacement pump. [1] The first records of a water screw, or screw pump, date back to Hellenistic Egypt before the 3rd century BC. [1] [3] The Egyptian screw, used to lift water from the Nile, was composed of tubes wound round a cylinder; as the entire unit rotates, water is lifted within the spiral tube to the higher elevation.
The infamous Eastern Han court eunuch Zhang Rang (d. A.D. 189) once ordered the engineer Bi Lan (畢嵐) to construct a series of square-pallet chain pumps outside the capital city Luoyang. [14] These chain pumps serviced the palaces and living quarters of the Luoyang; the water lifted by the chain pumps was brought in by a pipe system. [14]