pumping-engine

After a time he received a dollar a week as assistant to his father, and at the age of sixteen he was appointed to work as attendant upon the pumping-engine, at men's wages, -- three dollars per week.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

His father was a very humble workman, who filled the position of fireman of the pumping-engine in use at the colliery, at three dollars a week.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

A collier-boy, -- his father fireman to an old pumping-engine which drained a Northumbrian coal-mine, -- his highest ambition of boyhood to be "taken on" to have something to do about the mine.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

From the culm pile they went to see the great pumping-engine, and the huge fans that act as lungs to the mine, constantly forcing out the foul air and compelling fresh to enter it.

Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

The captain himself was sometimes given to metaphysical speculation, and even HE was puzzled to know if his heart had a whit more feeling than any other pumping-engine.

Stories by English Authors: the Sea Various

Besides erecting a winding engine for drawing up coal, and a pumping-engine, he projected and laid down a self-acting incline along the declivity of the Willington ballast quay, so arranged that full wagons descending to the vessels drew up the empty ones.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

It is but recently that the hair-felt covering on the steam end of a Worthington pumping-engine, within ten miles of us, not only burnt itself but destroyed some thousands of dollars worth of walnut lagging.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

A pumping-engine had a long, vertical cylinder, with arrangements for admitting steam at the top.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Far away down the gallery a small pumping-engine, used for keeping dry a deep working and fed with steam from above, was throbbing faithfully.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Far away down the gallery a small pumping-engine, used for keeping dry

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900