Pumping Collection

The Autumn Campaign: cavalry watering horses at the River Stour, Witley, 1872. British Army manoeuvres. From "Illustrated London News", 1872

The Autumn Campaign: sketches in the Southern Camp, 1872. Creator: Unknown
The Autumn Campaign: sketches in the Southern Camp, 1872. British Army manoeuvres

The British Expedition to Abyssinia: watering-place for transport animals at the entrance to the Koomaylee Pass, 1868

Experiments with Norton's Patent Tube-Wells, used by our army in Abyssinia, 1868

Burning of Pengwern Hall, near St. Asaph, the seat of Lord Mostyn, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Burning of Pengwern Hall, near St. Asaph [in Wales], the seat of Lord Mostyn, 1864

View of the fire in the Schouwburg in Amsterdam on May 11, 1772, (1772-1799). Firefighters pump water from the Keizersgracht in the foreground and belongins are rescued from houses

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley

Salt Vats of Padanaram, 1878. Creator: Robert Swain Gifford
Salt Vats of Padanaram, 1878

Pumping plant for irrigation powered by a natural gas engine
This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates at about half the cost of electricity. Tulare County, California

The International Exhibition: centrifugal pump by Easton, Amos, and Co. - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862

Town pump of Tulelake at railroad yard. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. Over 1500 people depend on hauled water for drinking the year round

Drinking water for the whole town, also for the migrant camp across the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Drinking water for the whole town, also for the migrant camp across the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Man Pumping Water, c. 1937. Creator: Beverly Chichester
Man Pumping Water, c. 1937

The Organ Player and His Wife, c. 1495 / 1503. Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
The Organ Player and His Wife, c. 1495/1503

The Post Horse (from The Life of a Racehorse, or The High-Mettled Racer), July 20, 1789

Draining Mill, Lincolnshire, 1810, (1947). Creator: John Sell Cotman
Draining Mill, Lincolnshire, 1810, (1947). Wooden pumping windmill beside a dyke in the Fens. Picture in the British Museum, London. From " British Windmills and Watermills, by C. P. Skilton

Two girls and a boy pumping water at well of Hampton Institute graduate, 1899 or 1900

Manning the Pumps, c1910–1913, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Manning the Pumps, c1910– 1913, (1913). Crew on the Terra Nova

Children drawing water from the Aldgate pump, London, August 1908. One boy pumps while the other holds a cup under the water outlet. To the left is a street fire alarm, with a bank behind

Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine, 1556 (1956). From De re Metallica by Georgius Agricola

An Egyptian sakieh, or ox-driven bucket pump, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
An Egyptian sakieh, or ox-driven bucket pump, Egypt, 1905. This machine, known as a sakieh, is familiar to us, in a less primitive form, as the bucket- or chain-pump

Fireworks at Green Park, St Jamess, April 27th, 1749
Fireworks at Green Park, St James s, April 27th, 1749

Organ with a single keyboard, 14th century, (1870). A wood engraving after a miniature in a Latin psalter from the Bibliotheque Imperiale, Paris

Great organ with bellows and double keyboard, 12th century, (1870). A wood engraving from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, (London, 1870)

All Hands to the Pumps, 1888-1889, (1912). Artist: Henry Scott Tuke
All Hands to the Pumps, 1888-1889, (1912). A colour print from Famous Paintings, with an introduction by Gilbert Chesterton, Cassell and Company, (London, New York, Toronto, 1912)

Various pumps for raising water, 1816. Including a triple pump (top right) and a man-powered balance pump (bottom right). From Encyclopaedia Londinensis. (London, 1816)

Various pumps for draining ships, 1816. Including: 82: chain pump; 84: suction pump; 85: force pump. From Encyclopaedia Londinensis. (London, 1816)

Solar motor by Aubrey Eneas of Boston, c1905 (c1910). Demonstrated at Edwin Cawstons ostrich farm Pasadena, California

Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1802. Artist: James Gillray
Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1802. Davy (1778-1829) discovered the anaesthetic effects of laughing gas (nitrous oxide)

Rock Salt: Refining salt, Northwich, Cheshire, England, c19th century

Rock Salt: Miners at work in salt mine near Cracow, Poland, c1820. Not all the salt is excavated, some pillars being left to support the roof of the mine

Evaporating pots of brine in a natural hot spring to obtain salt, 1556
Evaporating pots of brine in a natural hot spring to obtain salt. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer). (Basel, 1556)

Salt Works, Amsterdam, 1660. Right: quality of product is being shown to potential customer: Left: women are refining brine in a boiler

Shovelling salt at South Durham Salt Works, 1884. Top: Shovelling salt from pans in which brine pumped up from borehole was evaporated. Bottom: Stoking the furnace heating the evaporating tanks

Robert Boyles experiments with air pumps, 1725. Using this apparatus, similar to Guerickes water barometer, Boyle (1627-1691) found that water could only be raised 33ft 6ins

Draining a mine using a series of suction pumps powered by a water wheel, 1556. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola. (Basel, 1556)

A mine being drained by a rag-and-chain pump powered by an overshot water wheel, 1556. At the right of the image is a detail of section of pipe K. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola

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