Wood Screw Pump
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wood-screw-pump-285-12174607
title:
Wood Screw Pump
text:
The Wood Screw Pump is a low-lift axial-flow drainage pump designed by A. Baldwin Wood in 1913 to cope with the drainage problems of New Orleans. Wood's extremely efficient pumps replaced less efficient pumps in the city's drainage system, prior to which the city had experienced chronic flooding problems, bringing diseases such as malaria and yellow fever together with contamination of drinking water supplies. The pumps are driven by 2,000 horsepower (1,500 kW) synchronous Allis-Chalmers and Gen
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Low-lift axial-flow drainage pump
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Screw_Pump
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date modified:
2022-06-02T03:23:45Z
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