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FIRE ENGINES, FORCE-PUMPS, &c.
Will receive and execute orders with promptness and fidelity, to any amount, on reasonable
notice, either for the articles aforesaid, or for the conveying and supplying of water for cities
or villages.
The principle having been fully tested and approved by the literary and scientific, as well as
the practical mechanic, it may be deemed superfluous to add, here, any remarks upon the
subject; and the following are subjoined merely for the information of those who are yet
strangers to the invention:
The simplicity of its construction, its rotary motion, its admirable compactness and
unquestioned durability, are advantages of this machine, over those on the old principle, or
no slight importance. Independent of these advantages, there are others of still greater
magnitude. It will raise and discharge double the quantity of water, in a given time; or, in
other words, it requires the application of one half the power, only, to produce the same
effect. It discharges a more dense column. It is as little affected by the frosts of a northern
winter as by the heat of summer: and it can be made for one half the expence.
| Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University
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