The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

AT SEA

numerous ships it has already saved, and the captains gratefully ac-
knowledge the glorious results. Two testimonial extracts shall
melee :

" Captain Greig, from Quebec to London, states that the Fountain
Pump being fitted in the Caroline, its great power was the means el
saving the ship and 130 souls on beard, two seams in tke bottom
being party► left without calking."
" The Argus brig, from Cadiz, sprung a leak when three days out
at sea, and soon after her common pump cheaked and became use-
less. Captain Rutherford states all then depended upon her FOUR.
tain Plump, which for nineteen days and eighteen nights was In ac-
tion without a 'minute's respite, when all arrived safely in London,
with a thank God for the Fountain Pump."
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the New Portable Fire-engiues are of infinitely batter servieo that a
fire brigade. They act instantaneously at tie outbreak of a fire.
" fir• are delighted with the invention—it is a great boo* to so-
cloty."—Etlitors Liverpool Mall.

The New Portable Fire-engines have preserved a large portion at
Norwich from destruction, fur out of eighteen different properties on
Are in and near the city, they saved eleven ,olely and seven mainly,
including in the seven the Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and in the
eleven, Messrs. Hortou's dyery, and 12,0001. worth of consigned pro-
perty; Stoke mustard, starch, a.,(1 flour mil's, and Messrs. Butcher's
grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of gun-
powder therein from exploding, which must have spread around de-
struction and death.

" Ifortb Walsham.—lt this fire the Portable Engine was of great
service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but 11.41 f
the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfulk (Ara
niche, August 22, 1846.

At a Norwich tire June 2, 1847, the two Portable Engines were
the pets of the public. The cry was, feel the little engines and they
will do the work, which proved true. The four large engines present
proved useless.

Portable Engines speedily prOve 'steam-billers to a dozen atmo-
spheres.
•110 w the fast is this, all former • Force Tamps, Lift-ferce Pumps,
Lift P donifittnd Chitin IPutpelVarebad-rasalitnea4:l)3o,lailh4riah., wad
scrape the water upwards by friction, which wastes two-11fthit of the
power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young
and Hutton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented
thus :—The quantity of water actually raised by any machine seldom
exceejs 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 frim
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
some 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 1111,600 lbs. of water one foot high in a minute, and with a Foun-
tain Pump 9,001 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, Esi., 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 Pump, which upset a good
deal of Folly. Because Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump-
maker, Mr. Baddley, 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, Rook-maker Millington's
remarks are preposterous. However, on the other hand, Dr. Birk-
beck, Aberdour, Hay, Parkington, with many other discerning men,
after witnessing the perfeot effect and the beautiful simplicity of the
rolling principle, gave the invention the following true and susta'n-
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, wkilst their durability is guaranteed
at less cost tkan common pumps. . _

W. SILALDERS.

Fountain Pump Works, Norwich, Nor. 30, 1847.
See Mechanic's Mav,azine, Nos. 231*, 364, 383, 429, 430, 433,
483, 486, 487, 489, 492, 493, 496, 508, 509, 510. 425, 533, 658*,
727, 804, 1,040, I,llB', 1,183. Nos. illustrated are marked thus*