The water-supply of Bombay : being a report submitted to the Bench of Justices of that city / by their Executive Engineer Hector Tulloch.

  • Tulloch, Hector
Date:
1872
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Credit: The water-supply of Bombay : being a report submitted to the Bench of Justices of that city / by their Executive Engineer Hector Tulloch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    p are respectively 154 feet and 124 feet, instead of 1G0 feet and 125 feet; and tliere are, as the drawing shows, some small deviations of the lines of resistance beyond the middle third of the thickness; but not sufficient to be of practical importance. The following table contains some additional values of the vertical pressure at the outer face, at and near the point where it is more intense:— Depths, feet; 90 100 110 120 130 Vertical pressures, feet; 114 122 124 122 117 (Signed) W. J. MACQUORN RANKINE. Glasgow, 18th February 1871. ADDENDUM TO SECTION 3 OF REPORT. Should it be resolved to insert, in the face of the wall, headers or long bond stones, with or without projecting ends to form corbels, as in the dam of the River Furens, these stones ought to be laid with their lengths not horizontal, but normal to the face of the wall. Correction in Retort. In Section 22, for 120 feet, read 110 feet. W. J. M. R.
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