| 2000BC |
Egyptians invent the Shadoof |
| 200BC |
Greek inventor Ctesibius invents the reciprocating pump |
| 200BC |
Archimede designs the Archimedean screw pump |
| 1475
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A mud lifting machine that could be characterized as a centrifugal pump Italian engineer Francisco di Giorgio Martin |
| 1588 |
Sliding Vane pump invented by Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli |
| 1593 |
Nicolas Grollier de Serviere designs the gear pump |
| 1636 |
German engineer Pappenheim invents the double deep toothed rotary gear pump |
| 1650 |
Otto van Guericke invents piston vacuum pump |
| 1675 |
Sri Samuel Moreland patents the packed plunger pump |
| 1687 |
Denis Papin-French invents develop the first true centrifugal pump used for local drainage |
| 1738 |
Bernoulli published Bernoulli’s principle widely used in pump design |
| 1782 |
James Watt machine designs an oscillating piston |
| 1790 |
Briton Thomas Simpson founds the Simpson and Thompson company, Hayward Tyler established |
| 1830 |
Screw pump invented by Revillion |
| 1834 |
Sulzer Brothers founded |
| 1840 |
Henry R Worthington invents the first direct acting steam pump |
| 1848 |
Goulds Pumps founded |
| 1849 |
Goulds casts and assembles the world’s first all metal pump |
| 1851 |
British inventor John Appold introduces the curved vane centrifugal pump John Gwynne patents his centrifugal pump |
| 1853 |
Bore mann Pumpenfounded |
| 1857 |
Worthington produces the first horizontal duplex direct-acting steam pumps for boiler feed Roper pump company fou |
| 1860 |
A.S.Cameron invents the first reciprocating steam pump |
| 1862 |
Lawrence pumps established; Philip Hilge founded |
| 1866 |
Lederle founded; Scan Pump founded |
| 1868 |
Stork Pumpen of Hengelo, Netherlands pioneers the concrete volute pump for water drainage |
| 1870 |
UK Professor Osborne Reynolds develops an original design of a centrifugal pump |
| 1871 |
KSB Established; Southern cross established in Australia |
| 1874 |
Charles Barnes of New Brunswick invents the vane pump |
| 1874 |
Gotthard Allweiler invents and produces a series of hand wing pumps |
| 1886 |
Jens Nielsen, founder of Viking pump company invents the internal gear pumping principle |
| 1888 |
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd founded |
| 1897 |
Preston K. Wood makes the first deep well turbine pump in Los Angeles, USA; Wirth founded |
| 1901 |
Byron Jackson develops the first deep well vertical turbine pump; Flygt’s forerunner Stenberg founded |
| 1902 |
Aldrich Pump Company being manufacturing the world’s first line of reciprocating positive displacement |
| 1905 |
Multistage centrifugal pump developed |
| 1906 |
Andre Petit invents the eccentric disc pump |
| 1908 |
Land Roller pioneers the design the manufacture of irrigation pump |
| 1908 |
Hayward Tyler creates first electric motor for under water use |
| 1910 |
Glibarco producers its first gasoline pump; Lewis H. Nash files the first U.S.Patent for liquid ring vacuum pump and |
| 1911 |
Jens Nielsen builds the first internal gear pump |
| 1912 |
Ebara corporation founded |
| 1916 |
Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff inventes the submersible pumps in Russia |
| 1917 |
Hydraulic Institute is established ; Louis Bergeron invents concrete volute pump |
| 1918 |
Byron Jackson producers the first hot oil pump for the petroleum industry |
| 1920 |
Viking builds its first domestic oil burner pump using a mechanical seal |
| 1921 |
Labour pump company founded; Jeumont-Schneider beings manufacturing water and slurry pumps in France |
| 1923 |
Byron Jackson demonstrates the first use of centrifugal pump for oil pipeline and the first automatic booster stati |
| 1924 |
Durco pump introduces the world’s first specifically designed chemical processing pump |
| 1926 |
Pacific pump company produces the first hot oil double casing pump ; PSG Industrial Institute founded in Coimbatore |
| 1928 |
Worthington-Simpson produces the world’s largest steam-driven pumping engine for Municipal water supply |
| 1929 |
Pleuger pioneers the submersible turbine pump motor |
| 1930 |
Rene Moineau receives a doctorate for his thesis which will lead to the invention of progressing cavity pump |
| 1930 |
First pump in Coimbatore produced |
| 1933 |
Bush pump invented , J.C.Gorman and Herb Rupp introduces a pump with non-clogging feature |
| 1937 |
First Electric Motor in Coimbatore was manufactured |
| 1937 |
IDP Produces the first radially split, pull-From the rear process pump |
| 1939 |
Durco invents alloy 20, the standard industrial material for corrosive surfaces |
| 1941 |
British Pump Manufactures Association founded |
| 1944 |
Franklin Electric founded |
| 1945 |
Grundfos pumps, Caprari and Flexibox founded |
| 1948 |
Stenberg Flygt AB designs the first submersible drainage pump |
| 1949 |
HMD Supplies its first production magnet-drive pump |
| 1951 |
Indian pump manufactures association (IPMA) formed |
| 1952 |
Southern India Engineering Manufactures Association (SIEMA) spear heading the invents of Indian pump industry formed |
| 1956 |
Texmo industries founded in Coimbatore; Flygt industries the submersible sewage pump |
| 1958 |
Suguna Pumps founded in Coimbatore |
| 1959 |
World pump magazine launched as Pumping |
| 1960 |
Indian Standard IS 1710 specification for Vertical Turbine pump published |
| 1960 |
Mahendra pumps founded in Coimbatore |
| 1968 |
German-Rupp produces the first fiberglass below ground, factory built sewage pumping station |
| 1969 |
Mouvex launches the first sealless rotary pump not based on magnets |
| 1970 |
Smith & Loveless engineer frank Weis designs the first ever above-grade sewage pump lift station |
| 1971 |
Gusher develops a purge hole system that enabled pumps handle upto 30 to 40 percent entrained air |
| 1972 |
Indian Standard Specification IS 6595 for Horizontal Centrifugal Pump for clean cold water published |
| 1976 |
Indian standard specification IS 8034 for Submersible Pumpsets first published |
| 1979 |
Indian Standard Specification IS 9079 for electric monoset pumps first published |
| 1980 |
Viking introduces the Universal seal and Viking Mag Drive lines of internal gear pump |
| 1981 |
Deccan Industries established in Coimbatore by Er.K.K.Veluchamy |
| 1984 |
Scienco producers the first specialized positive displacement pumps for agricultural application |
| 1988 |
KSB sets up its manufacturing plant in Coimbatore |
| 1990 |
Deccan introduces the First Vertical multistage Openwell Submersible pumpset |
| 1994 |
Indian standard specification IS 14220 for openwell submersible pumpsets first published |
| 1994 |
Baha Abulnaga invents the slurry and forth pump with split vane impellers |
| 1997 |
ITT Acquries Goulds pumps, making ITT the world’s largest pump company |
| 2001 |
Flowserve introduces its MSP(medium speed pump) with variable frequency drives |
| 2000 |
GIW Introduces first computer designed LCC rubber-lined pump |
| 2000 |
GIW Innovated slurry diverter the improve wear |
| 2006 |
SIMS Manufactures the largest composites centrifugal impeller in the world measuring 50 inches and consuming 2000 ho |
| 2007 |
Grundfos acquires peerless pump |
| 2010 |
First structural composites anti-heeling pump manufactured for NCL cruise lines |