. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . E 5 **- COco ^£ <i .J8 M 1- — §?% 3.*° *So aE. 1. Hydraulic excavation at the cana! under pressure from Worthington pumps. 2. One of the giant triple expansion steam pumps used on the canal. (Supplied by the International Steam Pump Company of New York.) SAND PUMPS AND CRANES 365 bed in which they had reposed for count-less ages, and pumped, as if water, throughthousands of feet of pipe and lifted to aheight of nearly one hundred feet and theredelivered at the will of the operator. Thispumping process shortened the time ofconstr
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. History of the Panama canal; its construction and builders . E 5 **- COco ^£ <i .J8 M 1- — §?% 3.*° *So aE. 1. Hydraulic excavation at the cana! under pressure from Worthington pumps. 2. One of the giant triple expansion steam pumps used on the canal. (Supplied by the International Steam Pump Company of New York.) SAND PUMPS AND CRANES 365 bed in which they had reposed for count-less ages, and pumped, as if water, throughthousands of feet of pipe and lifted to aheight of nearly one hundred feet and theredelivered at the will of the operator. Thispumping process shortened the time ofconstruction many months over what wouldhave been required by the old system. Apump capable of handling 300 cubic yardsof solid matter per hour almost staggersbelief, yet the International Company hadfour such pumps at work on the canal. In the excavation work, especially fordeep foundations, wells, and for caissons, vast amounts of gravel and sand had to betaken out. To expedite this work sandpumps were employed, the Nye newmodel high-pressure pump being the oneselected. These pumps were built by theNye Steam Pum