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A displacement pump with valves for raising water by steam partly by atmospheric pressure and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water without intervention of a piston.

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  • The Savery principle still survives in the action of the well-known pulsometer steam pump.
  • The bottom of the tank is fully 3 meters below the level of the Danube Canal, which passes close by, and it was not until twelve large pulsometer pumps were set up, and...
  • With the pulsometer pumps working night and day they couldn't keep the water out of the test pier he had sunk.
  • You know what I mean; they put a pulsometer on a man's wrist and judge by how his heart goes at the pronunciation of certain words.
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