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a humble piston that moves everything from your blood to a city's water
means A device or action that moves liquid, gas, or air from one place to another by mechanical pressure or suction — or, by extension, the heart, a fuel station, or the act of forcing something repeatedly.
from From Middle Dutch and Low German 'pompe,' likely echoing the sloshing, sucking sound of the thing itself — an imitative word that spread across the seafaring languages of northern Europe before settling into English around the 15th century, when sailors needed to bail out their ships.
- heart math
- Beats roughly 100,000 times daily, no breaks
- oldest tech
- Egyptians used shadufs to pump water 3,000 years ago
- gym ritual
- The muscle swell is blood flooding into tissue
- shoe slang
- Court heels were named for their soft pumping sound
- deepest dig
- Mine pumps lift water from miles underground
trans alaska pipeline — 800-mile oil pipeline built in 1977, moves 500,000 barrels daily across alaska
hoover dam pumping plant — pumps colorado river water 242 feet uphill to lake mead near las vegas since 1936