Valuable Scientific Discovery.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 2, 10 November 1869, Page 2

Valuable Scientific Discovery.

I Tiie following extract is worthy the n<- | ten lion of our readers, and we may inform j them that wo have seen this new ami r I markably simple automatic pump- at work j in Dunedin. One has heen ordered already I for this place, for raising water for domestic i uses, but if it can be applied to raising i water to almost any height with very j little expense, and we believe it can, the ! invention will be of the utmost value to j our machine drivers and others : —“ Automatic Water. Engine.-—V discovery con { uected with the raising of water is claimed | to have been made by Dr Bourbon, a. pin j sician of some reputation, at Maberville. B. | a very simple piece of mechanism, he says he can raise a continuous stream of water to almost any altitude, without labour of any kind, and without expense, beyond that necessary for the first cost of the machine, and this is by no means large Dr Bouron states that the power of the machine is based, upon a natural and im" : mutable mechanical principle, and the' | by it there might he created a continuous i current of water at the surface of the soil, ! wherever a spring of water exists u I matter at what depth. The machine r 1 intended to supercede all existing pumps. Dr Bouron also states that, however paradoxical it may appear, hr. has found “ IVi grcHtr.i height to which the water has ho raised, the greater is the power of ilm machine.