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More on the Humphrey Pump

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If you would like to find out more about the Humphrey Pump go to this site.
www.steamengine.com.au
On the home page go to the main heading, it's a drop down menu, then select search this site, in the window just type in Humphrey Pump, and you will be there.

Humphrey Pump, History

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The Humphrey Pump was patented by HA ( Herbert Alfred ) Humphrey, a gas engineer and chemist, in 1906. An explosion of inflammable gas and air hitting the surface of the water propels the pump. As a result, the Humphrey Pump has been likened to a water cannon. This kind of pump was used at the Cobdogla irrigation settlement on the River Murray, South Australia. Today the world's only working Humphrey Pump is at the Cobdogla Irrigation and Steam Museum. It can be seen in action four times a year and is known as 'Big Thumper' as the ground shakes with its action. Big Thumper can deposit 1.25 million gallons of water in irrigation channels per hour.

This information was sourced from the State Library of South Australia.

For more information on COBDOGLA go to www.bethanysnapshots.blogspot.com

Humphrey Pump picture, by Denis Wasley

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This photo of the Humphrey Pump, is a personal photo of DENIS WASLEY. Denis has kindly supplied this to me for use on this blog. I must thank him and I appreciate him letting me use this here.

Coming soon

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I am fine tuning what I want to write, check back in a few days.

Bethany writes

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This is where I will write about things I find interesting about history, and also some things you might not know.