Viking Pump has provided custom designed pumps to end-users and OEM's since its first pump in 1911, when Viking invented the "gear-within-a-gear" pumping principle to remove water from a rock quarry. Today, enabled by Viking's engineering staff, extensive applications experience, and in-house foundries, Viking develops custom solutions for OEM's based on more than =,000 of its standard catalog pumps with more than 40,000 active configurations.