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Double Plunger Sewerage Pump circa 1881.
Source: "New
Double Plunger Sewerage Pump," The Manufacturer and Builder,
Volume13, Issue 12 (Dec. 1881), p. 273. Courtesy of The Making of America
Digital Collection, Cornell University Library.
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Details of Isaac Shone's Pneumatic
Sewerage System, used in London circa 1884. This system was successfully
used in London. It is a "separate" system, with sewage and
rainwater disposed of by separated systems. Gravity delivers sewage
to district collectors, then pneumatic ejectors raise sewage and deliver
it to disposal points. See pp. 30-33 of source article for detailed
information.
Samuel M. Gray, Proposed
Plan for a Sewerage System, and for the Disposal of the Sewage of the
City of Providence (Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers
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The Shone Pneumatic Sewage Ejector, circa
1887. This device was used at stations in the sewage system to raise sewage
with compressed air.
"The Shone
Hydro-Pneumatic System of Sewerage," The
Manufacturer and Builder, Volume 19, Issue 5 (May 1887), p. 105.
Courtesy of The Making of America Digital Collection, Cornell University
Library.
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The Shone Pneumatic Ejector, circa 1892.
This device was used at stations in the sewage system to raise sewage
with compressed air.
Source: Urban H. Broughton, "The
Shone Hydro-Pneumatic System of Sewerage," Transactions
of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume XXVII (December
1892), pp. 662.
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Sewerage pumping plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1893, showing the pump
well, pump, engine, and discharge into the lake.
Sewage and factory wastes were discharged into Milwaukee's streams
and rivers in the 1870s, leading to disease and environmental degradation.
This pumping plant was part of the plan implemented in the 1880s to
correct the problem. The original designers (1880) were E. S. Chesbrough,
Moses Lane and George E. Waring, Jr. The plan was expanded in the 1880s
by the author, G. H. Benzenberg.
Source: G. H. Benzenberg, "The
Sewerage System of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee River Flushing Works,"
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume
XXX (December 1893), Plate II. Used with permission of ASCE and EWRI.
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Milwaukee River flushing works pumping plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
1893, showing the engine designed by Mr. Edwin Reynolds and built by
the E. P. Allis Company. See above for further information.
Source: G. H. Benzenberg, "The
Sewerage System of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee River Flushing Works,"
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume
XXX (December 1893), Plate III. Used with permission of ASCE and EWRI.
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Perspective view of the Rife hydraulic engine, made by The Power Specialty
Co., New York, circa 1896.
Source: "A
Hydraulic Ram Plant for a Public Water Supply," Engineering
News and American Railway Journal, Volume XXXVI, No. 27 (31 Dec.
1896), p. 429.
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Section of the Rife hydraulic ram for pumping pure water, using impure
water for power, circa 1896.
Source: "A
Hydraulic Ram Plant for a Public Water Supply," Engineering
News and American Railway Journal, Volume XXXVI, No. 27 (31 Dec.
1896), p. 429.
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Advertisement for Rife hydraulic engine, manufactured by
the Power Specialty Company, New York, 1897.
Source: Supplement to Engineering News and American Railway Journal,
Volume XXXVII, No. 17 (29 April 1897), p. XXIV (facing p. 161).
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Advertisement for Rife hydraulic engine, manufactured by
the Power Specialty Company, New York, 1897.
Source: Supplement to Engineering News and American Railway Journal,
Volume XXXVII, No. 9 (4 March 1897), p. XXVI (facing p. 77).
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