Illustrated catalogue for Victorian water pumps, horsepower pumps, windmill pumps, and hydraulic rams. Hydraulic rams were considered one of the greatest technical innovations of the 19th-Century allowing farms and…

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; lantern and crown gear; Three-lobed disc cam; bell crank.

Mechanics: horizontal spoked treadwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; horizontal working beam.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear; horizontal working beam; bell crank.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; lantern and crown gear; grooved eccentric cam; bell crank.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; cylinder cam with single lobe; roller guides.

This device uses a paternoster pump, named for its resemblance to a rosary. Also known as a "rag and chain" pump or a "rubber bucket chain" pump.

Mechanics: hand crank; paternoster chain pump; flywheel.

Cap with sales can be rotated by rudder to catch optimal wind. This windmill uses a paternoster pump, named for its resemblance to a rosary. Also known as a "rag and chain" pump or a "rubber bucket chain" pump.
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Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; chain equalizer; roller guides.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear.

Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; double worm and reversing racks; roller guides.

Mechanics: hand crank; vertical crankshaft; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; crank and connecting rod; flywheel.

Mechanics: hand crank; machine crank; bellows pump; horizontal working beam; flywheel.

The building housing the device is ornately decorated with male and female caryatids, vegetal motifs, scrollwork, fish, hybrid water creatures; the door is surmounted by a heraldic coat of arms.

Mechanics: horizontal…

The well is decorated with a monstrous female figure who gazes in the mirror and dispenses water from her breasts.

Mechanics: hand crank; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur…

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; motion converter (rotating to linear).

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lift pump; lantern and crown gear; Cylinder cam with multiple lobes.

Mechanics: hand crank; machine crank; lift pump; flap valve; horizontal working beam; flywheel.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; horizontal working beam; crank and connecting rod.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; horizontal working beam; crank and connecting rod.

Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; swinging-vane rotary pump; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear; chain drive.

Mechanics: internal vertical treadwheel; machine crank; force pump; spur gear and lantern; chain drive; chain equalizer.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; toroidal force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; lantern and rack; horizontal working beam; roller guides.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; oscillating double-wing pump; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear.