@liquidassets6: Hydraulic ram pump: water pumped uphill with no power. The flow slams the waste valve shut, the water hammer pushes a slug through a second valve into an air chamber, and the air pushes it up the pipe. Dozens of times a minute, day and night. A 10 ft fall can lift water 80 ft, though less than a tenth makes the climb. Joseph-Michel Montgolfier built the first self-acting one in 1796, 13 years after his family's balloon carried the first people into the sky. Send this to someone who thinks every pump needs a plug. Photo credits via Wikimedia Commons: Eebie (CC BY 4.0); Dr. Mirko Junge, original by FrankZ (CC BY 3.0); SchiDD (CC BY 3.0); Hans Schneider (CC BY 3.0). Stream photo: Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress. Follow @thebusinessofwater #hydraulicram #rampump #offgrid #howitworks #water

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