Word: pump
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ninety students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in shifts of thirty each, helped to test the new 21,000,000-gallon pump at the Chestnut Hill pumping station Wednesday. The first crew went on at eight o'clock in the morning and stayed until five in the afternoon; then they were relieved by a crew which stayed until after midnight, when the last shift went on until morning. Most of them were stationed in the engine room, where every part of the engine and boilers was thoroughly tested. Readings were taken from all the gauges every fifteen minutes...
Captain Armstrong of the Yale crew has devised a pump by which the coxswain can bail out the shell in rough weather...
...tester for steam indicators. For driving this machinery there is an engine of twenty-five or thirty horse power. Steam is furnished by an upright boiler in the rear part of the building. In connection with the boiler are a blower for forced draught and an automatic feed-pump for supplying water...
...work rebuilding the top room of the mineralogical museum in Boylston Hall for a new laboratory for organic chemistry. The new room will be fireproof and will have all the latest improvements. The desks are tile topped and each one will be fitted with water and with a vacuum pump. There are enough of these to accomodate 32 men comfortably, and a good many more at a stretch. Nine large hoods, heated at the top with steam radiators, are built into the north wall. The eastern end of the room is divided into three compartments, two furnace rooms...
...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...