| 1. | The ordinary General Service " Lift and Force Pump " was then attached.
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| 2. | Ancient bilge force pumps had a number of common uses.
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| 3. | Another use of the force pump was to combat fires.
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| 4. | Yet another suggested use for a force pump was to dispel water from a ship.
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| 5. | The force pump was portable and could therefore, as on ships, be used to fight fire.
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| 6. | Force pumps were used on land as well.
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| 7. | One paper opined that a faulty force pump and low water level in the boiler was the cause.
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| 8. | In 1689, Denis Papin suggested that the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell could be maintained by a force pump or bellows.
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| 9. | In 1789 Smeaton applied an idea by Denis Papin, by using a force pump to maintain the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell.
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| 10. | Three concentric lamp wicks, supplied with rapeseed oil by means of a suction and force pump, were placed in the focal plane of the apparatus.
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