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Show Raising Water With Air. ; As all schoolboys know, a suction pump can theoretically elevate water only about thirty-three and one-third Seet, a column of water of that height hala'ncine the atmospheric presure. A means has, however, been found of causing a suction pump to raise water to a height of even sixty feet. The Invention was made by a workman in the French marine. Monsieur Eys-eerie, Eys-eerie, the chief engineer of the marine ma-rine remarked that one particular pump showed extraordinary qualities In drawing water from ships' holds, inquiry developed the fact, says Harper's Har-per's Weekly, that a workman had thought of the plan of introducing -air into the water at the point where the euction was applied, thus producing an emulsion of sir. and water, which, because of its dlminisher density, was capable of being elevated to considerably consider-ably greater heights thaa pure water. iPiqmiw r-Tnrr" r-' |