The Principles, Construction, and Application of Pumping Machinery (St

Steam and water pressure drove the pumps that drained mines and supplied towns at the end of the Victorian age, and Henry Davey's study sets out how such machinery was understood, built and put to work. First published in London by Charles Griffin & Company in 1900, it appears here as a facsimile reprint of that original edition.

Its scope runs from principles through construction to application, covering engines and pumps in the language engineers used at the turn of the twentieth century. It suits historians of technology, students of mechanical engineering and anyone curious about the machines behind industrial water supply, offering a clear view of the field as its practitioners saw it.