A stirrup pump is a portable reciprocating water pump used to extinguish or control small fires.[1] It is operated by hand. The operator places a foot on a stirrup-like bracket at the bottom of the pump to hold the pump steady, the bottom of the suction cylinder is placed inside a bucket of water.[2]
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Engraving from the mid-17th Century fire museum in Salem at Lake Constance, Germany
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A stirruppump is a portable reciprocating water pump used to extinguish or control small fires. It is operated by hand. The operator places a foot on...
fight a fire while the main hoses were connected and brought into use. A stirruppump was also carried, together with a full range of other suitable tools...
one of these, in the roof of a shop, with the aid of a stirruppump and bucket of water. The pump proved to be out of order, but nothing daunted she proceeded...
outbreak of World War II, Dutfield converted the factory to produce stirruppumps and later aircraft parts, while Dutfield himself was an officer in the...
hand-worked stirruppump on the tank. Once pressurised, a large lamp could burn for some hours before the pressure fell enough to require more pumping. A particular...
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government to exempt women from conscription. She and a friend used a stirruppump while working as an air raid warden in London during The Blitz. Grieve's...
air-raid drills became regular free 'entertainment' in the evenings. Stirruppumps were issued to put out fires and proved very useful for watering gardens...
the clergy and members of the church kept watch on the church with a stirruppump, buckets and shovels. The windows were given a coating of a rubber solution...
the "Wardens Service" which depicts a male air raid warden with axe, stirruppump and bell and a female warden with rattle and the "Bristol Police" window...
off. PAMs were given a basic training in first aid and in the use of stirruppumps. They had to know where all the civil defence and Police out-stations...
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waterproofed canvas suit, an air hose from a surface-supplied manually operated pump or low pressure breathing air compressor, a diving knife, and weights to...
fitting. Open sided rigid "hook" stirrups allow the foot to be positioned on a rigid stirrup without removing the fin. Stirrup steps have the same ergonomic...
designed into the pump and not variable. The pressure, expressed in pounds per square inch, pascals, or bar, is designed into the pump but can be varied...
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is because it leads to upwelling (Ekman suction) and downwelling (Ekman pumping) in order to obey mass conservation laws. Mass conservation, in reference...
subside by the end of the monsoon season several months later. After days of pumping water from the cave system and a respite from the rainfall, the rescue...
boat that allowed the use of shorter periscopes. There is a propeller (or pump jet) at the rear, and various hydrodynamic control fins. Smaller, deep-diving...
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District Council in 1937 to appoint three air raid wardens. This done, two stirruppumps were purchased to deal with incendiary bombs, and three more were given...
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