Chicago pumping engines

• Book ID: 103086623
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1877
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 121 KB
• Volume: 104
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(77)90138-7

✦ Synopsis

The test of the pumping engines lately constructed for the West Side Pumping Station of the city of Chicago, Ill., by the Quintard Iron Works of New York, was commenced in the month of January last, but in consequence of the condition of the boilers, from the presence of scale and mud, extreme cold weather and injudicious firing, the engines failed in the required duty of 90,OOO;OOO ft. Ibs., although they discharged more than the required volume of water, of 30,000,OOO U. S. gallons in 24 hours.

The Commissioners upon this occasion were : Moses Lane, of Chicago; Chas. H. Haswell, of New York ; Henry Warrington, of Chicago; Chas. Hermany, of Louisville ; and T. J. Whitman, of St. Louis