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2. Water feature - Wikipedia

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   The sump can either be contained within the water feature, or buried underground (in the case of an outdoor water feature). A water feature may be indoor or outdoor and can range in size from a desk top water fountain to a large indoor waterfall that covers an entire wall in a large building, and can be made from any number of materials ...

3. Schiller Woods magic water pump - Wikipedia

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   The pump handle was briefly removed in 1974 due to impurities in the water, but restored in 1975 after the water cleared. [ 6 ] Some regular drinkers of the pump's water, a good many of whom are Catholic members of Chicago's large Polish community , believe that the pump was blessed by Pope John Paul II when he visited Chicago in 1979, but ...

4. Fountain - Wikipedia

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   As King Louis XIV built more fountains, he was forced to construct an enormous complex of pumps, called the Machine de Marly, with fourteen water wheels and 220 pumps, to raise water 162 meters above the Seine River to the reservoirs to keep his fountains flowing. Even with the Machine de Marly, the fountains used so much water that they could ...

5. Water pumping - Wikipedia

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   The Archimedean screw must be tilted at an angle. The spiral pump, if fitted with a suitable rotating seal, can deliver water to a greater height than the coil pump, typically 5-10m, above their discharge opening. Its main drawback is that the output is small - an output proportional to the volume of the largest coil being moved each revolution ...

6. Hydraulic ram - Wikipedia

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   The device uses the water hammer effect to develop pressure that allows a portion of the input water that powers the pump to be lifted to a point higher than where the water originally started. The hydraulic ram is sometimes used in remote areas, where there is both a source of low-head hydropower and a need for pumping water to a destination ...

7. Hand pump - Wikipedia

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   A chain pump is made of an endless chain carrying a series of discs that descend into the water, and then ascend inside a tube, carrying with them a large quantity of water. They are a simply made, old hand-powered pumping technology [ 10 ] In the 18th century they were used as ship's bilge pumps.