Pump Handbook
Subtitle: Third Edition
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: September 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1765
ISBN-13: 9780070340329
Subjects: Pumps; Reference works; Machinery; Hydraulic Machinery; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Pumping machinery; Engineering - Mechanical; Technology / Engineering / Mechanical; Handbooks, manuals, etc
First sentence: Only the sail can contend with the pump for the title of the earliest invention for the conversion of natural energy to useful work, and it is doubtful that the sail takes precedence.