Prototypes of the propellants, according to the testimony of Heron, already produced in ancient Greece (the device to dislodge from the vessel of water heated air or steam). The first propellant production facilities were proposed in 1698 by British engineer T. Severi steam pumping plant. This device can be considered a prototype invented in Germany in 1871 Hullem pulse meter, which took two cameras and operate automatically.
The idea of using compressed air for water expressed in 1707, Papen and other engineers, but little has been applied much later (20.) - In monzhuse and double chamber water pump replacement for water wells (design engineer VP Savotin, USSR) . The water under the pressure of the combustion products of liquid fuel has been implemented in the UK in 1911 NL Humphrey.
Fundamentally different way of water or oil from wells with compressed air or other gas was used in gas lift, which had been proposed in the mid-19 century. And later found a practical application.
With the invention of the Montgolfier in 1796 automatically acting hydraulic ram there has been another way of development of devices for feeding pressurized fluid whose operation was based on the use of water spray from time to time created by water hammer. In the future, have been proposed various designs of hydraulic rams.
One variety of pump-sets was water-jet pump, which is like a laboratory device was proposed by British scientist D. Thompson in 1852 and served for the suction of water and air. The first design jet apparatus employed engineer Nagel in 1866 (presumably in Germany) to remove water from mines. Later established various jet pumps in the form of water-ejectors, steam-water injector, and many other fundamentals of the theory of jet pumps were laid in Tseynera G. and W. Rankin for the 2 nd half of 19. And received a significant development in the 30's. 20. Thanks to research by American engineers and O'Brien Goslina and Soviet specialists LD Berman, K. Baulina, A. Lozhkin, E. J. Sokolov, N. Singer, and others later proposed hydro-pneumatic water pump for wells (VP Sirotkin, YS Surenyants), in a design which combined jet pump airlift and. One of the directions of development of pump-sets is the creation of magnetohydrodynamic pumps. The first of these pumps at constant current proposed Golden (1907) and Hartmann (1919) and pumps with alternating current - Chubb (1915). However, they have become widely used in the USSR and abroad, only in 50-60-ies. 20., Mainly due to the success of nuclear energy. T., equipment lifting and moving initially only the water, then oil and other liquids in every period mainly corresponded to the level of development of productive forces and production relations.
