An old engraving showing a Worthington duplex waterworks pumping engine, Newark, New Jersey, USA It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Henry Rossiter Worthington (1817–1880) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and industrialist. He patented the duplex steam pump in 1859 and built the first duplex waterworks engine, widely adopted and used for more than 75 years. Because of their reliability and low operating cost, these pumps were greatly used for waterworks and for pumping oil through long pipe lines.
An old engraving showing a Worthington duplex waterworks pumping engine, Newark, New Jersey, USA It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Henry Rossiter Worthington (1817–1880) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Worthington had advanced the direct steam pump (1845–55), patented the duplex steam pump in 1859 and built the first duplex waterworks engine, widely adopted and used for more than 75 years. He established a pump manufacturing plant, New York City, in 1859. He founded the Henry R Worthington Pump Works in 1845 in Brooklyn. In the duplex system one engine actuated the steam valves of the other, and a pause of the pistons at the end of the stroke permitted the water-valves to seat themselves and preserve a uniform water pressure. It was one of the most ingenious advances in engineering in the nineteenth century and its principle was widely applied. Because of their reliability and low operating cost, these pumps were greatly used for waterworks and for pumping oil through long pipe lines.
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