Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alumni requests for the restoration of the old wooden pump which stood in the Yard have been taken note of by University officials and it will be set up in its original form as a Tercentenary celebration feature. The pump stood approximately opposite the north entry of Hollis Hall and was constantly used by students until 1901 when it was blown up by dynamite and completely demolished...
...essence, the Burger bombproof cellar is a boilerlike contraption of heavy steel slightly larger than an automobile trailer. Buried in the ground, it is fitted with bunks and provision shelves for householders. A special pump keeps gas from seeping in by increasing the interior pressure. As in a submarine, the air is kept fresh by passing it through coils of chemicals...
...used to go on Sunday mornings to St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in Detroit, accompanied by her grandfather who stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
...Gorrie was a good enough physicist to know that expanding air absorbs heat from its surroundings. Accordingly he built a steam-driven pump which packed air to ten times atmospheric pressure. The released air chilled water until it froze. Dr. Gorrie was granted U. S. Patent...
...islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels. It was forseen that for ten hours a day. between tides, turbines could not turn, but while they were operating it was planned to use their power to pump seawater to an upland reservoir, whence it could return creating auxiliary power during Quoddy's idle hours...