Volume 1
Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water-works of London, and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries / By William Matthews.
- William Matthews
- Date:
- 1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water-works of London, and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries / By William Matthews. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CONTENTS. | Page RRUGAOE 6 apAbuike 936 Se war he ok ee eee Sa ee a Cuap. I.—The earliest artificial devices to obtain clear Spring Water for common use. Modes of supplying London prior to William the Conqueror, &c. Fitz-Stephen’s description of them in the reign of Henry II. Sites of different Fountains. First Lead Cistern at West-cheap. Periods of constructing various Conduits. Hampstead Water-works. Lambe’s Conduit. Benefactions for mak- ing and repairing Conduits. Annually visited by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. Situations of the Conduit- heads. Rolle’s Reflections upon the Destruction of the Conduits by the great Fire in 1666. Remains of one at Bayswater. Verses placed on some of them when James I. passed through the City at his accession to the Englisch Crows. ium ol) ptueeds to eho 1 anaes 9 I Cuap. II].—Various projects to remedy the defective supply of Water to London. Russel’s scheme for conveying it from Uxbridge. Morice’s first Water-wheel at London- bridge. Genebelli’s proposal to Lord Burleigh. | Bevis Bulmar’s Horse Engine at Broken Wharf. New River. Plans of Forde and Sir Walter Roberts. London Bridge Water-works’ Company. Southwark Water-works. York Buildings’ Works. Mary-la-bonne Springs. Marchant’s Water-works. Company of St. Alban’s Waters. In- crease in the number of Wheels at London-bridge: dif- ferent improvements in the Works: their capacity and extent of Supply: final demolition for building the new bridge. Transfer of supplying the City to the NewRiver 25 Cuap. [1].—Circumstances relating to the original construc- tion of the New River. Acts of Parliament for the pur-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2929387x_0001_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
