A treatise on waterworks for the supply of cities and towns : with a description of the principal geological formations of England as influencing supplies of water / by Samuel Hughes.

  • Hughes, Samuel
Date:
1872
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Credit: A treatise on waterworks for the supply of cities and towns : with a description of the principal geological formations of England as influencing supplies of water / by Samuel Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flanging rivers by means of surface velo- city, 354. —— by means of a float, 356. ■ of water passing through sluices or orifices, 358. by means of current meters, 362 by means of weirs, 367. over weirs, coefficients for, 370. ———over a weir, Beurdmore's me- thod of, 373. over weirs, importance of accu- rate, 374. 375. graduated rule for, Gaugings of Bngshot waters by Mr -Rammel and Mr. Quick, 71. ■ by Mr. Bateman, 72. Gault, very important with reference to the Sj[uration of ^ chalk> Position of clay, 76. formation described, 79. —— — thickness, area, and extent of the, at the Three Counties Asylum well at Arlesey, thickness of, 81. General Board of Health, report of the, 63. ~~7~. : -— as to cost of bringing water from the Bagshot Sand estimate of the, 6-1. ' ~~~r—~~—— remarks on the project of the, 69. ~ want of infor- mation as to the Bagshot scheme of the, 74. Geological structure of drainage-areas, Gorbals gravitation reservoirs, 333, 334. the 3l3W°rkS' SJstem of fixation at GraT3i6UnCti0n W°rk8' C0St of PumPig b 273 Company, water pumped Gravel-beds in the Permian formation, Great Oolite of Yorkshire and other counties, 98. — springs caused by fullers' earth under the, 99. and fullers' earth, 105. thickness of, 105. • near Bath, 106. Back's(estimated cost of working West Middlesex Waterworks engines, 317, Hampstead Heath, springs of, 18 ttardnesa of waters. 60, 69. —— from Bagshot and the Bower Greensand, 73. ~ of Cambridge water, 80 larvey and West's double-beat valves Sfol, ' tion and drawings of, 262 '|pscP- larvey's proportions for Cornish engines, Harwell's formula for calculating power of engines, 286. Hawkesley's experiments on available rainfall, 331. filter-beds, 350. Hocking's proportions for Cornish En- gines, 283. —- estimate of working-expenses tor Cornish pumping-engines, 321. Homersham'smeasurements of waterway assigned to bridges and culverts in chalk and clay districts, 43. Horse-power of steam-engines, table of, calculation of, 271. coefficients of, 273. ~~ °f steam-engines, table of, of g91 01 Cornish engines, tables 7. . ; Dur- Ungton's table, 393. Ho-king's pump-vulves, 267. H233g°nt' pUmps used at 0le mine of. TT ,, ,„ rawing of pumps used at, 234. Hull Waterworks, valves used for the pumps at, 266. Hydraulia, Matthews's, 3. Inferior Oolite, extent of, 100. building stone of, 100. —— ; subdivisions of, 108. Infiltration, Dalton's experiments oil, 14. Dickinson's, ditto, 15. — ;— Prestwich on rainfall and, 17. Iodine m water from well at Wood/mil, Jacob's Well described by Dr. Clarke 5 Joseph's Well at Cairo, description of, 5' Jurassic or Oolitic series, extent and sub- divisions of, 94. Kimmeridge Clay of Buckinghamshire, — 011 'he thickness of the, Lambeth Company, water pumped by, Lancaster, supply of water to, 130. Leamington, supply of water to, 130. 3030D UleDu,'y 0f Piping Engines, — experiments at the United Mines, Leicester, supply of water to, 130 Leslie's calculation as to rain-water Pro. lessor, 3. ~llome0n9th6 WPly °f Water t0 ancie,|t Lias formation, extent of the, loo. • su divisions of the, 108. T .... springs thrown outby. 109 Lit mg-pumps with a solid or plunjroi piston, 233. 1 miiKu] -—- pump, drawing and description of, Liverpool Corporation Waterworks, 148.
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