Cantclimbtom
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No not a former US President or dialect for fart, but a way of using moving water to generate compressed air to blow a forge, or in French Canada... using a head of water to power compressed air mining machinery.
In my ignorance... I've not heard of this being used in the UK which is odd as we seem "blessed" with water in and around our mines and hills. The one person I'd have assumed to want to import something exotic would have been Moses Kellow, but he was obsessed with water powered (directly) mining machinery (e.g. Kelldrill) so air generation may not have captured his interest
Are there any examples of Trompes in UK?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe
A good clear explanation of how this works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvf0lD5xzH0
In my ignorance... I've not heard of this being used in the UK which is odd as we seem "blessed" with water in and around our mines and hills. The one person I'd have assumed to want to import something exotic would have been Moses Kellow, but he was obsessed with water powered (directly) mining machinery (e.g. Kelldrill) so air generation may not have captured his interest
Are there any examples of Trompes in UK?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe
A good clear explanation of how this works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvf0lD5xzH0