Word: pumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending to the nearest lake or river. One of these engines is shown in the accompanying picture with a fireman on top directing the liquid stream...
...fire companies more or less organized this system, providing an engine house for the pump, and delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps...
...body similar to, but very much smaller than, the old-fashioned "square" piano. There are two treadles but they are not like the treadles of the organ, being rods run from the foot to the upright rod that connects with the bellows. The right foot is used to pump air; the left is used to increase the sound...
...great interest. Steel is used as a lubricant in the apparatus, for oil becomes solid under compression. Four different types of lee have been discovered. Which freeze at different temperatures and pressures. Mercury dissolves in iron in the pressures. Mercury dissolves in iron in the pressure chamber of the pump...
...machine is worked purely by a hand pump, and is quite small, so small, in fact, that when some Dutch scientists were shown the arrangement, they asked. "But where is the machine?" On, various occasions Professor Bridgman has just missed losing a limb when the apparatus emploded, for the pressures seem to burst easily an inch thick wall of hardest metal. Professor Bridgman is still perfecting the arrangement and hopes to achieve pressures of 800,000 pounds per souare inch or even higher...