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Duty trial of a pumping engine, built by the Geo. F. Blake manufacturing company

✍ Scribed by F.W. Dean

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1893
Tongue: English
Weight: 580 KB
Volume: 135
Category: Article
ISSN: 0016-0032
DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(93)90138-k

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✦ Synopsis

Late in 1889, the city of Newton, decided to add to their pumping plant a new engine and two new boilers, and the writer was engaged as consulting engineer. He advised the Water Board to accept the bid of The Geo. P. Blake Manufacturing Company, not only because the price was the lowest, but because it was evident that their offer was for the highest type of compound engine. It was true that no engine like thishad been built, but he had sufficient confidence in the builders to believe that they would succeed in designing a durable and highly efficient engine. The result proved the wisdom of the choice, for after some mishaps and experimentation incident to a first machine, the VOL. CXXXV 22

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In the spring of i892, the author was requested by The Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Company to make a duty trial of a pumping engine, designed and built by them for the City Water Works, of Newton, Mass., and located at Newton Upper Falls. The engine had then been running under the normal conditions