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We learnt this way of Pump-making from the Spaniards; who make their Pumps that they use in their Ships in the South-Seas after this manner; and I am confident that there are no better Hand-pumps in the World than they have. He understanding that we were bound farther to the Southward, desired us to transport him and his Men to his own Island.
It was natural, therefore, that, being proud of his early connection with Woolwich, he should wish to lie there; and Woolwich, on its part, let us add, has equal reason to be proud of Henry Maudslay. The words Bramah uses in describing this part of his patent of 1795 are these "The piston must be made perfectly watertight by leather or other materials, as used in pump-making."
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