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Thus Roberts, in 1852, proposed to cement the neck of the glass globe into a metallic cup, and to provide it with a tube or stop-cock for exhaustion by means of a hand-pump.
The inventor employed a most ingenious contrivance to preserve the horizontal balance of the air-ship. Fitted, one at each end of the carriage, were two 50-gallon tanks. These tanks were connected with a long pipe, in the centre of which was a hand-pump.
The water from which the steam is made is also fed automatically into the boiler, when the engine is in motion, by a pump worked by the engine piston. A hand-pump is also supplied by which the driver can keep the proper amount when the machine is still or in case of a breakdown. A water-gauge in plain sight keeps the driver informed at all times as to the amount of water in the boiler.
"Lend a hand on this pump. I'll deal with your case when we get up." "What must I do?" asked Foster, plaintively, as he turned his face, an ashy green now, toward Ross. "Pump," yelled Ross, in his ear. "Pump till you break your back if necessary. Ship that brake." He handed Foster his pump-brake, and they shipped them in the hand-pump.
Meanwhile his eldest son, Joe junior, immediately donned the helmet, seized the poker, thrust the head of it into a bucket of water, and, pointing the other end at a supposed fire, began to work an imaginary hand-pump with all his might. "It's goin' out, daddy," cried the urchin.
The cable to the rock was led through a ring at the stern and carried forward to the windlass. By the time the tide had begun to rise again they had got the hull free of water, taking turns at the hand-pump and operating the bilge-pump at the same time. Then they waited to see how well they had succeeded at their caulking.
We then went all round the deck, taking a pull at the halliards where necessary; and then, though a heavy dew was falling, we got up a small hand-pump and some hose we had provided ourselves with, and gave the sails a thorough wetting.
It's as well, too, to know how to knot sheets and blankets together, so that the ties won't slip, for if you have no rope they'd be better than nothin'. You should also have a hand-pump, ma'am, and a bucket of water always handy, 'cause if you take a fire at the beginnin' it's easy put out.
"I wonder that Crabtree didn't hire something better. She just crawls along, and no more." "Probably he got the boat cheap. He always was the one to go in for cheap things." And in his surmise the lad was correct. It was not long before one of the Canadians took hold of a hand-pump near the bow of the boat and began to pump the water out of the hold. "Hullo, your old tub leaks, eh?" said Tom.
Ships were in sight, with rollers of foam whitening under them. Gulls dipped after fish. The clouds drove past. A fishing boat piled with fish was labouring up to London, her sails dark with spray. On the deck of the schooner some barefooted sailors were filling the wash-deck tubs at a hand-pump. "Well," he said, in the rough, bullying speech of a sailor, "do ye see it?" "See what, sir?"
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