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Technology | Horse Pumps |
Horse pumps were used in several early waterworks systems:
1799 New York City Manhattan Company
1820 Cincinnati
1825 Detroit
1830 New York City 13th Street Reservoir
1833 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
1833 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, horse-drawn railway delivered tubs of water to an elevated reservoir
1837 South Union,
Kentucky
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