The thesis focuses on improving the flowrate of the Knudsen gas pump. The Knudsen pump uses thermal transpiration as the driving mechanism to pump gas. It is a motionless gas pump as the pump does not require any moving actuators for pumping. The...
Microelectromechanical systems; Pumping machinery; Drug infusion pumps
Dermal wounds, including bed sores, pressure ulcers, and diabetic ulcers have a large impact on American healthcare costing up to $7 billion per year. Adequate pharmaceutical remedies applied at constant rate could prove to increase the healing...
Pumps; Ship equipment & rigging; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Pile of bicycle pumps and burners inside one of the plants at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. Burners may be rivet heaters and the pumps may have been used to pressurize fuel tanks.
Indian Gas Station, located on Bardstown Road at Midland Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. Four cars are stopped at the gas and air pumps. A woman stands at each car, while a man looks under the hood of one, and another attendant holds a pump hose....
Continental Oil Company station at 431 Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Service station has cars in both the washing and greasing bays, and three workers and a patron turn towards the camera for the photo. The gasoline pumps are closer to the...
Automobile service stations; Show windows; Gasoline pumps; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 420 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The exterior of the Francis Garage is symmetrical and made mostly of brick. Plate glass windows on the first floor indicate, "Francis Garage, Storage by the Hour, Day or Month." Just...
A group of men in hats standing in front of the courthouse with clock tower in Winchester, Kentucky. There are large posters or signs leaning against the front of the building that say "Walk-Over" across the top with a picture of a...
Pumps; Ship equipment & rigging; Industrial facilities; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana as seen from a barge at the bank of the Ohio River. A pump and stiff leg crane sit on the barge and a water tube boiler is on a trailer to the left. A stern wheel paddlewheel shaft is...
Three children, two boys and a girl, stand on a wide sidewalk in New Albany, Indiana next to a hand water pump. The smallest boy is holding a white bucket and another bucket is attached to the pump.
Ivy-covered stone icehouse on the grounds at Clovercroft, family home of photographer Kate Matthews. A cast iron water pump is near the stairwell at the entrance to the ice house. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on lower right corner of...
Indian Gas Station, located on Bardstown Road at Midland Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. Four women stand beside their cars, while a man looks under the hood of one (watched by three of the women), and another attendant fills up the car's tank....
Indian Gas Station, located on Bardstown Road at Midland Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. Ground appears to be flooded. Signs advertise: "Motor-n-All, Complete Lubrication System; Indian Refining Co.; Chief of Gasolines Indian Red A High...
In the foreground are metal vessels, possibly part of a machine. In the center, people sit on rows of benches facing the back where sprays of water shoot towards the ceiling. Title: 1722- Pump Annex Machinery Hall. Text on left: Centennial Series....
Buildings; Advertisements; Water pumps; Land subdivision
Appears to be a back lot or empty lot at southeast corner of Thirteenth and Grayson (now Cedar) Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Advertisements in the back for Apple Chewing Tobacco as well as Dolly Bread. Appears to be a great deal of hay and/or...
Buildings; Cafes; Signs (Notices); Electric signs; Water pumps; Millinery
Two-story light wooden building attached to a two-story brick building at the corner of Sixteenth and Market, Louisville, Kentucky. The wooden building has Ed Leonard's Cafe on the ground floor, while the brick building houses [Losey] Millinery,...
Two-story wooden building on the corner of Eighteenth and Magazine, Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor houses John's Cafe, advertising "A Hot Bowl of Soup with Each Drink." It is next to a much smaller wooden building, which might be a...
Buildings; Bars; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Water pumps
Tall two-story dark brick building at the corner of Nineteenth and Portland, Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor business is Francis' Exchange, a cafe advertising Kentucky whiskies and Phoenix beer. A poster in the window advertises a...
