World's Largest Pumps
The largest pumps in the world have recently been employed in draining storm waters from tho city of New Orleans. Twelve of these monsters, each fourteen-feet pumps, each able to discharge GO,OOO cubic feet of water every minute, were in operation. A steel-bladcd screw, whirled like an auger bit by a powerful motor, propels tho water. New Orleans is built within a natural bowl, with no outlet for rain water to flow by gravity to the Mississippi River. Only seven such pumping stations would he required-in order to pump as much water as pours over Niagara!
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6865, 23 May 1932, Page 3
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99World's Largest Pumps Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6865, 23 May 1932, Page 3
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