Gear pump
Bomba de engranajes
- Date
- c. 1600 · confidence low
- Place
- Prague, Czechia
- Credited to
- Johannes Kepler
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A positive-displacement pump that moves fluid through the meshing of two gears, widely used today in hydraulic applications and for pumping high-viscosity fluids.
Attributed to Johannes Kepler around 1600, while he worked as imperial mathematician in Prague.
What it led to
- Industrial hydraulic power systems
- Reliable pumping of viscous fluids in the chemical industry
Built on
- Mechanical gears