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

AT SEA

numerous ships it has already saved, and the captains gratefully ac.
knowledge the glorious results. Two testimonial extracts sit,:
sufflee :
" Captain Greig, from Quebec to London, states that the Fountain
Pump being fitted in the Cngolizte, its great power was the means 01
saving the ship and 230 souls on board, two seams in the bottom
being partly lett without calking."
" The Argus brig, Iron,. Cadia, sprung a leak. alien three days out
at sea, and soon after her cotnrrion pump choaked and became n
less. Captain Rutherford stattes all then depended up,ni her Fei,-
taiu Pump, which for nineteen days and eighteen nights was in ac •
Lion without a minute's respite, when all arrived safely in London,
with a thank God for the ]Fountain Pump."
ON LAND
the New Portable Fire-engines tire of infinitely better service than 3
fire brigade. They act instantaneously at the outbreak of a tire.
"We are delighted With the invention—it is a great boon to so-
ciety."—Editors Liverpool ,Hail,
The New Portable Fire-engines have preserved a large portion
Norwich from destruction, for out of eighteen different properties on
fire in and near the city; they saved eleven solely and seven mainly,
including in the seven-the! Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and in tic
eleven, Messrs. Morton's dyery, and 12,0101. worth of consigned pro-
perty; Stoke mustard, starch, and flour mills, and :Messrs. Butcher's
grocery warehouses, jusein time to prevent a large quantity of un-
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powder therein front exploding, which must have spread around (le-
struction and death. •
" North Walsham.—At this tire the Portable Engine was of great
service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but h .It
the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfolk t_hro-
nicle, August 22, 1846.
At a Norwich tire 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 proied true. The four large engines present
proved useless.
Portable Engines speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atmo-
spheres.

Now the fact is this, all former Force rum" Lift-force Pumps,
Lift Pumps, and Chain Pumps are bad machines : they rub, grub, and
scrape the water upwards by friction, which wastes two-fifths of the
power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young
and Hatton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented
thus :—The quantity or water actually raised by any machine seldom
exceoCe 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 victor}, 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.

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Most men can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 seconds, but
some men drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric-
tion Pump an active sound-winded young an of 140 lbs. weight can
raise 11,100 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 most
extraordinary lucrative advantage is gained over 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 Gosset's French Pump Abortion (that slaps the water
upward) side by side with the Fountain Pimp, which upset a good
deal of Folly. Because Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump-
maker, Mr. iladdley, London, an everlasting pump-writer, and Mr.
Ewbank, America, an ignorant pump book-maker, asserted that the
two pumps were identical. But the Yankee out-fooled John Bull
and Paddy in No. 1,183, and in No. 496, Hook-maker
remarks are preposterous. However, on the other hand, Dr. Birk -
beck, Aberdour, Day, 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 susta li-
able character:—The Fountain Pump is the most important improve-
ment in the art of raising water that has appeared within the last two
thousand years—the greatest advancement in the useful arts in
modern times.

The Consummation Fountain Pumps are 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 ridiculous, whilst their durability Is guaranteed
at less cost than common pumps.

Fountain Pump Works, Norwich, Noy. 31, 1847. W SIIILDERS.
See Mechanic's Magazine, Nos. 231*, 364, 383, 429, 430, 433,
482, 486, 437, 489, 492, 495, 496, 308, 509, 510. 52i, 533, 658*,
727, 804, 1,049, 1,1195, 1,183. Nos. illustrated are market thus*