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2. Coultershaw Wharf and Beam Pump - Wikipedia

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   As well as the pump, other exhibits include an hydraulic ram pump, hand pumps and an electrically driven borehole pump. [62] Visitors can also see the mill pond below the sluices, the navigation pool and the former stables for the canal horses. [1] The River Rother at Coultershaw is popular with anglers and contains large quantities of chub and ...

3. Hydraulic ram - Wikipedia

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   Figure 1: A John Blake's hydram that drives a fountain at the Centre for Alternative Technology A ram pump in Vogn, Nordjylland, Denmark A hydraulic ram in Kajny, Warmia, Poland In 1772, John Whitehurst of Cheshire , England , invented a manually controlled precursor of the hydraulic ram called the "pulsation engine" and installed the first one ...

4. Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Ebb and flow hydroponics - Wikipedia

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   Ebb and flow systems are flexible, with few practical drawbacks. Though typically known for compact cultivation of plants having smaller stature, it has been used for growing large plants, using buckets ranging in size from 1 gallon to 5 gallons, making use of high-volume pumps such as those in large aquariums, decorative fountains and koi ponds.

6. Drinking fountains in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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   The earliest and most prolific fountain-building organization was the Philadelphia Fountain Society, headed by medical doctor and art collector Wilson Cary Swann (1806–1876) and formally incorporated on April 21, 1869, [18] with the stated mission of developing water fountains and water troughs for Philadelphia.

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