The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-01 00:00:00

ON LAND

the New Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service than a
fire brigade. They act instantaneously at the outbreak of a fire.
"We are delighted with the invention—it is u great boon to so-
clety."—Editors.Liverpool Mail.
The New Portab:e Fire-engines have preserved a large portion of
Norwich from destruction, fur out of eighteen different properties on
fire in and near the city, they saved eleven solely and seven mainly,
including in the seve■ the Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and in the
eleven, Messrs. Morton's dyery, and 12,0001. worth of consigned pro-
perty ; Stoke mustard, starch, and flour mills, and Messrs. Butcher's
grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of gun-
powder therein front exploding, which must have spread around de-
struction and death.

" North Walsham.—At this fire the Portable Engine was of great
service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but h
the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfulk Oat,-
Mole, August 22, 1846.
♦t a Norwich fire June 2, 1847, the two Portable Engines were
the pets of the public. The cry was, feed the little engines and they
will do the work, which proved true. The four large engines present
proved useless.
Portable Engines speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atmo-
spheres.

Now the fact is tbis, all former Force rumps, Lift-force Pumps,
Lift Pumps, and Chain Pumps are bad machiues : they rub, grub, atm
scrape the water upwards by friction, which wastes two-nftits of the

power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young
and Hatton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented
thus :—The quantity of water actually raised by any machine seldom
exceeCs half the power consumed, after overcoming friction and
leakage ; and notwithstanding the best engineers In the world had
tried in vain for two thousand years to abate these palpable defects
in hydraulic machines, nevertheless, at last the victory is won, and
won for ever ; for friction and leakage are now both annihilated by-
the new rolling principle in pumps, and their effect augmented from
twelve to twenty (or about seventy per cent.), and frequently with-
out more outlay.
Most men can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 seconds, but
come men drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric-
tion Pump an active sound-winded young man of 140 lbs. weight can
raise 10,100 lbs. of water one foot high in a minute, and with a Foun-
tain Pump 9,000 lbs. in half a minute. Thus a continual and must
extraordinary lucrative advantage is gained o►er perpetual and uni-
versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power.
John Clenton Roberts, Esq., in his popular work, No. 1,110, did
well in placing Gusset's French l'ump Abortion (that slaps the water
upward) side by side with the Fountain Pump, which upset a good
deal of Folly. Because Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump-
maker, Mr. lladdley, London, an everlasting pump-writer, and Mr.
Ewbank, America, an ignorant pump book-maker, assorted that the
two pumps wore Identical. But the Yankee out-fooled John Bub
and Paddy in No. 1,183, and in No. 496, Book-maker Milling:on's
remarks are preposterous. However, on the other hand, Dr. Birk -
beck, Aberdour, Hay, Parkington, with many other discerning men,
after witnessing the perfect effect and the beautiful simplicity of the
rolling principle, gave the invention the following true and state li-
able character:—The Fountain Pump is the most important improve-
ment in the art of raising water that has appeared within the last twit
thousand years—the greatest advancement in the useful arts in
modern times.

The Consummation Fountain Pumps arc successfully carried out
for private and public uses, at lifts below and above 100 feet altitude,
for man, horse, and steam power; delivering from half a pint per
stroke to 100 barrels of water per minute, and rendering every fair
trial at competition ridicalous, whilst their durability is guaranteed
at less cost than common pumps.

W. SIIALDERS.
Fountain Pump Works, Norwich, Nov. 31, 1847.
See Mechanic's Magazine, Nos. 231*, 364, 393, 429, 430, 433,
482, 486, 417, 439, 492, 495, 496, 908, 509, 510. 529, 533, 65s*,
727, 804, 1,040, 1,119*, 1,183. Nos, illustrated are marked thus*