Now, what do you imagine his object was in pumping you if he had no intention of taking an interest in the mine?
The sucking action is performed by means of a small bag inside the head, the size of which can be alternately increased and decreased by the action of muscles, thus causing a pumping action.
Only the middle tube is used for the passage of the honey, the side tubes being used, as some think, for breathing purposes, while others hold that they serve to help in pumping up the fluids into the mouth.
Large quantities of water were found, requiring pumping machinery working day and night for its removal.
And he had the insolence to charge Richards with flooding his mine with water from ours, instead of pumping it to the surface.
One was that it would be no longer possible to parry the question of pumping apparatus with Mr. Wade.
Instead of pumping it up, they let the water seep through to the Star, and we lift it.
The same method can be applied to individual turbines pumpingtheir own oil from a tank in the bedplate; the return oil, as previously described, being temporarily prevented from running back to the supply.
As a matter of fact, a fairly high vacuum can be maintained with the air pump closed down, and only the indirect pumping action of the falling water operating to rarify the contents of the condenser body.
In 1711, almost a hundred years after the arrival at Jamestown and Plymouth of the fathers of our present civilization, the steam-engine that is called Newcomen's began to be used for the pumping of water out of mines.
About half an hour's pumping may possibly be saved by making use of a water pump.
By pumpingand sparking, the resistance of the tube may be gradually raised till the spark would rather jump over 2 inches of air than go through the tube.
When the spark would rather go over an inch of air in the spark gap than through the tube the pumping and sparking may be interrupted and the tube allowed to rest for, say, five minutes.
After pumping air into the gallery for about an hour, we all went below again, and my section commander and Lieutenant G.
With constant pumping and digging we attained depths of from twenty to twenty-five feet below the surface.
I don't expect you're in very good trim for pumping water through gun-barrels.
The writer believes that in calculating the cost of the water used in the plant itself the price chosen by the author, covering only the actual operating expenses of pumping and filtering, is too low.
The cost for pumpingwater for sand handling, including all labor, materials, and repairs, amounts to $0.
The electric light engines and generators supply the current for lighting the pumping station, the office and laboratory and other buildings, and also the courts and interior of the filter beds, and for operating a machine-shop.
The two methods of pumping and of subaqueous mining will in some places be carried out conjointly.
In such instances the work assigned to the pumping machinery will be to keep free of water those drives in which good bodies of ore were exposed when last profitable work was being carried on.
Sometimes a windmill is used for pumping river or well-water into high tanks from which it descends by gravitation into the sprinklers, the latter being operated by the power of the liquid as it descends.
He had seen one stand on a bowlder fifteen feet high, and after strutting up and down the rock with his tail and wings hanging, stop to call, putting his bill down on the rock and going through contortions as if pumping out the sound.
Because the heart has been pumping hard and has sent the red blood out toward the skin.
Keep up this swing-pumping about ten or fifteen times a minute for at least ten or fifteen minutes, unless the person begins to breathe of himself before this.
Some years previous to Huyghens' proposal, the Abbe Hautefeuille (1678) proposed a gunpowder engine without piston for pumping water.
A light is applied at a touch hole, and the explosion drives up the piston, which, working on a lever, forces down the piston of a pump for pumping water.
The Buffalo line is 4 inches in diameter and 70 miles long; it has a pumping station at Four-Mile and at Ashford (omitted on the map).
The pumps used on all these lines are the Worthington compound, condensing, pressure pumping engines.
The pumping stations are substantial structures of brick, roofed with iron.
Pennsylvania line and runs to Baltimore, a distance of 70 miles, and is operated from the first named station alone, there being no intermediate pumping station.
Worthington; it is to be used at the Osborne Hollow Pumping Station.
The Cleveland pipe, 100 miles long, is 5 inches in diameter, and has upon it four pumping stations; it carries oil to the very extensive refineries of the company at the terminal on Lake Erie.
The Pittsburg line is 4 inches in diameter and 60 miles long; it has pumping stations at Carbon Center and at Freeport.
The pump house is a similar brick structure about 40 by 60 feet, and contains the battery of pumping engines to be described later.
A general description of the longest line will practically suffice for all, as they differ only in diameter of pipe used and power of the pumping plant.
We regret that we have no profile on this 70 mile line operated by a single pumping plant.
We have lately examined the latest pumping engine plant, and the largest yet built for this service, by the firm of H.
The original prospectors began operations by digging collecting ditches, and then pumping off the oil which gathered upon the surface of the water.
The Pennsylvania line has a single 6-inch pipe 280 miles long, with six pumping stations as shown in the map, and groups of shorter lines, with a loop extending from the main line to Milton, Pa.
I couldn't shoot both at once, and while I was pumping it into one the other got away.
He didn't know enough to stop pumping the lever when all his shells were gone, and just about then I chipped in with my rifle and put a ball through the moose's shoulder that dropped him handy to the bank.
This he did with the dry part of the handkerchief, drawing the end of the tongue out at the corner of the mouth, and holding it there while Uncle Ed and I started the pumping action, which produced artificial respiration.
The limbs were always rubbed upward, or toward the body, with the bare hands, or a dry cloth if there was one at hand, but this all had to be done without interfering with the pumping action.
To stop such an attack he told us that the best plan was to apply a mustard plaster to the chest, and if the patient commenced to gasp, to start pumping the arms and squeezing the waist so as to help him breathe.
He could see its little heart pounding in its chest, and the pumping bellows of the pink lungs that surrounded it.
Arms flailing, legs pumpingdesperately to balance his toppling mass, Albert fought manfully against the forces of gravity and inertia.
The bows of his barge had been badly strained, and his men were pumping or baling in relays.
For more than two hundred and fifty miles from Walcheren to Friesland stretched a line of embankments and pumping stations that was the admiration of the world.
All that has been done is the pumping of her out daily by the stevedore's men when their stowing work is finished.
Meanwhile, the loading of the Swordfish went on--also the pumping of her.
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs.
In mining, the pumping charge is one of the great factors of cost.
The larger part of the United States production, however, is derived by pumping water down to the beds to dissolve the salt, and pumping the resulting brine to the surface where it is then evaporated.
The lock could be used with only fifteen minutes for pumping instead of four hours.
Mike's pumping out the other locks too, so you can come in at any of 'em.
It came as such a shock to me that I felt I had a good chance of suffocating, just from the way my throat tightened up and my heart started pumping blood at twice its usual rate.
