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thumb|A Catalan forge trompe
A trompe is a water-powered air compressor, commonly used before the advent of the electric-powered compressor. A trompe is somewhat like an airlift pump working in reverse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “trompe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.