. Scientific American Volume 82 Number 12 (March 1900). * Proposed Electric Pumping Plant—Capacity, 60,000 Gallons per Minute,. It is a curious fact that workers invanilla factories are affected with head-ache, lassitude, muscular pains, skindiseases, etc. Some of the workers hadto give up their employment. Old Pumping Plant of Dry Dock No. 1, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Installed 1861—Capacity, 22,000 Qallons per Minute. * Tti«> two DiawlngB tie reprodaced onOie Bame A CBHITTBYS DEVELOFHENT IN FTTMFINO MACHINEBY. century in the construction and economy of operationof pumping machinery.
. Scientific American Volume 82 Number 12 (March 1900). * Proposed Electric Pumping Plant—Capacity, 60,000 Gallons per Minute,. It is a curious fact that workers invanilla factories are affected with head-ache, lassitude, muscular pains, skindiseases, etc. Some of the workers hadto give up their employment. Old Pumping Plant of Dry Dock No. 1, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Installed 1861—Capacity, 22,000 Qallons per Minute. * Tti«> two DiawlngB tie reprodaced onOie Bame A CBHITTBYS DEVELOFHENT IN FTTMFINO MACHINEBY. century in the construction and economy of operationof pumping machinery. Our larger engraving is a side elevation of the orig-inal condensing, double-acting, beam engine andpumps, which were erected in 1851; while the smallerengraving, which is drawn to the same scale, repre-sents the new electric pumping plantwhich it is proposed to erect in itsplace. The drawings being made tothe same scale, the contrast betweenthe elaborate and cumberso;ne designof the old, walking-beam engine, andtnecompact arrangement of the electri-cally-driven centrifugal pumps, is evi-dent at a glance, particularly
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