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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![Page Taste 1¥Y.—Showing the results of Experiments made by Messrs. Smeaton and Brindley . i » 452 Taste V.—Showing the results of Bossui’s Experiments, with Pipes of different lengths, and inclined so as to form the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle; the bee thenuse being to the altitude as 2124 to 241 . ib. TaBLe VI.—Quantities of Water discharged by rectilineal and curvilineal pipes, fifty feet long, and one inch dia- meter, in Bossut’s Experiments . eer ib. TasLe VII.—The results of Messrs. Smeaton and Brindley’s Experiments to ascertain the quantity of Water dis- charged from a Reservoir, by rectangular notches . 453 TaBLE VIII.—Showing the results of Du Buat’s Experiments to determine the quantity of Water flowing over a Weir 18! inches in length . « ib. DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE MAPS, &c. Portrait of Sir Hugh Myddelton to face the Title. View of Lambe’s Conduit 15 View of the Conduit Head at regia sims 22 View of an old and singular Pump 26 View of London Bridge Water Works 28 View of the Wooden Aqueduct, formerly at Bush Hill : 48 Map of the New River and River Lea 61 Map showing the Sites, &c. of different Water- os 92 Forms of Pipes, &c.employed in Water-works 146 Watt’s Flexible Main across the Clyde at Glasgow 49 Parts of Roman Aqueducts, exhibiting the mode of con- structing them 19] Map of Constantinople and its em 230 Representations of the Terazi and Sou-terazi 23 Fountain of the Innocents at Paris 288 Crosley’s Patent Water Meters 304 Views and Sections of different kinds of waivee &e. 308 Map of Mr. Telford’s project for supplying London from the Verulam . 419 Map of his scheme to sapily Savtivaye oni the wandle. 420](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2929387x_0001_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
