The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-26 00:00:00

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FOUNTAIN' PUMPS.

The most powerful Hydraulic Machines in the world ; and for
the preservation of life and property at sea, the greatest discover),
that has been made since the creation of man ; which a few ex-
tracts from a. volume of testimonials will show :
John Browne, Esq., of Pool, certifies that he had fixed three
Fountain Pumps against three common Pumps, one of each in three
of his own ships, and found they always discharged double the water
the common pumps discharged, and with less labour, likewise the
Fountain Pumps proved infinitely loss liable to choak.
Captains Brock, Rutherford, Goodridge, and Greig, severally
testify that their ships, their cargoes, and their lives were all saved
through the means of the Fountain Pumps; and their testimonials
most strikingly mark how various are the casualties that render
these powerful machines all-important on ship-board.
The Spring encountered Heavy Gales of Wind for eleven days,
and must have been lost, but for the Fountain Pump, at one time
a few tons more water in the vessel would have caused that
catastrophe.
The Argus sprung a leak, and for eighteen days and nineteen
nights the Fountain Pump was worked without intermission, and
saved the ship, whilst for all the water that could have been dis-
charged with the common Pump alongside of it (which the third
day became useless) the brig must have sank, and that in the
course of a Few Hours.
The Friends Goodwill, started a Butts'-head, and no Pump in
existence, but the Fountain Pump, could have saved that vessel from
destruction.

The Caroline had Two Seams of her Bottom partly left without
Caulking, yet the Fountain Pump saved the ship, and 230 souls
on board.

These are some of the achievements of the Fountain Pump, in
its infant state as predicted in the " Norwich Mercury, July 24,
1824, in this formal manner :—" On the thirtieth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in the fifth year of the
reign of King George the Fourth, was the first Fountain Pump in
action. With which Two Men can keep full of water a Spout of
Six Inches bore, and save poor tars by thousands." Things were
then mainly in theory ; but now the high practical bearing of the
invention demands universal adoption ; and intimates the Preserva-
tion of Millions of Lives, and Property beyond calculation.
The principle of the Fountain Pump is that of Jehovah's
diaphragm pump, which Principle acts as freely in art as it does in
nature.

The principle of the common Pump is bad, and its defects are
palpable and insurmountable, if a pipe and a poker can be called a
principle.
Lifting Pumps have hollow pokers, called pistons ; forcing pumps
have solid pokers called plungers.
Lifting forcing Pumps have hollow pokers work in pipes, and
solid pokers work in stuffing boxes.
These Pumps are the most defective from the extra friction of

their solid pokers.
The London manufacturers of the last defective tools, fulminate
their dependents who dare to fix Fountain Pumps ; yet no man
in England dares meet the Norwich. Pump in fair public combat.
However, the public are not to be gulled ; and friction pumps,
both old and new, public and private, for low or high elevations, with
the power of man, horse, or steam, keep falling in all directions as
Frictionless Pumps approach their situations ; and fall the common
Pump will, or common sense must.
There is no mystery or difficulty in raising of water now the right
way is known, for it is only lifting a weight in a fluid state.
Rule to guage cylinders, and how to prove what friction adds to
the labour of pumping. Mark, 13 feet of 1-inch pipe will contain
71 oz., or 13 feet of 4-inch pipe 7llbs. of common water :—Take
a Pump with a 4-inch cylinder, measure 39 inches downwards from
the bottom of the spout to the water's surface, load a piston that
has a cupped leather (which is the best kind of packing) till it sinks
in the water in the Pump; then draw up the piston with a spring
steelyard, and when the water begins to rise, if the index of the
steelyard stands at 281b5., 1741b5. is the weight of that column of
Water,
and lOilbs. is the resistance of friction.
This will unfold more than engineers know respecting Pumps,