GB Patent: GB-181,203,611
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| Method of organizing and constructing water mains and other pipes
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Patentee:
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| Joseph Bramah (exact or similar names) - Pimlico, county Middlesex, England |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Oct. 31, 1812 |
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Wikipedia biography of Joseph Bramah
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| The 1871 encyclopedia The Technical Educator has an article that itemizes Bramah's inventions. "In 1812 Bramah patented a scheme for laying mains or large water-pipes through the principal streets of London, of sufficient strength to withstand great pressure, to be applied by force-pumps; his object being to provide the means of extinguishing fires by throwing water without the aid of a fire-engine; and also to supply a lifting power applicable to the raising of great weights, by forcing water or or air into an apparatus consisting of a series of tubes, sliding into one another like the tubes of a telescope, and capable of being projected when necessary. He asserted his ability to make a series of five hundred such tubes, each five feet long, capable of sliding within each other, and of being extended in a few seconds by the pressure of air to the length of 2,500 feet, and with such an apparatus he proposed to raise wrecks and regulate the descent of weights. By the construction of some waterworks at Norwich, Bramah acted with success in the department of the civil engineer." |
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