The Savery principle still survives in the action of the well-known pulsometer steam pump. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
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 worked continually night and day, that it was possible to reach the necessary depth to allow of the commencement of the foundations of the boundary wall. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887] Reference
With the pulsometer pumps working night and day they couldn't keep the water out of the test pier he had sunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of Father Brown] Reference
A steam pulsometer, and a face that looked as if it might have been used for the butting post at the end of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
The owner of the department store next door refused to permit access through his basement, and that added many hundred dollars to the cost of building the party wall; the fire and telephone companies were continually fussing around and demanding indemnity because their poles and hydrants got knocked out of plumb; the thousands of gallons of dirty water pumped from the job into the city sewers clogged them up, and the city sued for several thousand dollars 'damages; one day the car-tracks in front of the lot settled and valuable time was lost while the men shored them up; now and then the pulsometer engines broke down; the sand-hogs all got drunk and lost much time; an untimely frost spoiled a thousand dollars' worth of concrete one night. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
I'll hold my six against his pulsometer. From Wordnik.com. [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference
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