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Food Machinery started humbly in 1884 when Maine-born Californian John Bean invented the first hand spray pump, designed to battle the San Jose scale.* Spray pumps grew bigger, with higher pressures, became power driven, resulted in the manufacture of turbine pumps used in irrigating farms. Now turbine pumps are used in mines and tunnels...
...Eliot House sinking or not? That is the question which should be in the minds of all loyal Jumbos at this time with their yard graced by a machine pump, a mound of loose earth, and a good deal of miscellaneous water...
...date the question remains unsolved. Active measures of repair, however, are being employed. The automatic force pump from inside no longer throws out its contents into Cambridge at large but a noisy machine job balls unceasingly in an attempt to link the sewage system of Eliot House with the main network. As for the pipes, they will soon wear protective sleeves to guard against either sinking or corrosion...
...percent efficiency. An old brick vault, in the basement of the Fogg Museum, has been painted with white lead on the inside. The only outlet is a thick steel door. Once the objects are locked up inside, gas from a cylinder is forced into the chamber by a powerful pump. The gas, which is allowed to circulate for at least a whole day, has the ability to penetrate almost any thickness of cloth or fibre, even reaching the innermost grains of a hundred pound bag of wheat with unimpaired efficacy. When the process is complete, the gas is exuded...
Yale turned up with a new gadget yesterday at the Junior Varsity game in the form of a portable shower. Managers would drag the machine onto the field during time outs, pump furiously, and refresh weary players with gentle rain...