The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

ON LAND

the New Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service than a
fire brigade. They act Instantaneously at the ontbreak of a fire.
" We are delighted with the invention—it is a great boon to so-
elety."—Edi tors Liverpool Mail.

The New Portable Fire-engines hare preserved a large portion of
Norwich from destruction, for out of eighteen different properties on
flra In aid near the city, they saved eleven solely and seven mainly,
including in the seven the Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and in the
eleven, Messrs. liorton's dycry, and 12,0001. worth of consigned pro-
perty; Stoke mustard, starch, and tour mills, and Messrs. Butcher's
grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of pt-
powder therein from exploding, which must have spread around de-
struction and death.

" North Walsham.—At this fire the Portable Engine was of great
service, and by haying one of them ready, there is no doubt but half
the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfolk Chro-
nicle, August 22, 1846.
At a Norwioh 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 dont atm,-
lpheres.

Now the fact is this, all former Force Pumps, 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 Hutton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented
thus :—The quantity if 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 low both annihilated by
the new rolling principle in pumps, and their effect augmented fens
twelve to twenty (or about seventy per cent.), and frequently with-
out more outlay.
Most teen can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 sceends,: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 10,000 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 luerative advantage is gained over perpetual and uni-
♦ersal ignorance, clearly preying that Knowledge is Power.
Job. Clanton Roberts, Esq., in Isis popular work, No. 1,110, did
well in placing Gosset'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. liaddiey, 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
aid Paddy in No. 1,183, and in No. 496, Book-maker Millington's
remarks are preposterous. However, en the ether hand, Dr. Birk-
beck, Aberdour, Ilay, I'arkington, 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 sustain-
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 Censensmation Fountain Pumps are successfully oarricd out
for private end 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 competitive ridiculous, whilst their durability' is guaranteed
at less cost than common pumps.
SHAIDERS.
Fountain Pomp Works, Norwich, Nov. aO, 1847.

Sce Mechanic's Magazine, Nos. 23i*, 364, 383, 429, 430, 433,
482, 486, 487, 489, 492, 495, 496, eOB, 589, 510, b 25, 533, 658*,
727, 884, 1,010, 1,118., 1,183. Nos. illustrated are marked dms*