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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    Weirs, importance of accurate gauging over, 37-4. graduated rule for gauging over, 374. Wellington, supply of water to, 140. Well described by Dr. Clarke, 5. at Mecca, 7. at Grenelle, its cost, yield, and tem- perature, 186. at Messrs. Meux's brewery, 191. at Messrs. Courage and Donaldson's, the Anchor brewery, Horsleydown, 195. at Bow brewery, 196. at Messrs. Webb's mineral water- works, Islington Green, 197. at Trafalgar Square, 198. at the Bank of England, 199. at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, 199. at Guy's Hospital, 200. . at Messrs. Wliitbread's brewery in Chiswell Street, near Finsbury Square, 201. at the Lion brewery, Belvedere Boad, Lambeth, 203. at Messrs. Reid's, Liquorpond Street, 205. at Kensington Gardens, 205. at Amwell Hill, near the source of the New River in Hertfordshire, 206. . at the New River Company at Ches- hunt, 207. . at Cheshunt, Sir Henry Meux's, 207. at Crossness, 203. at the Crystal Palace, 210. at O'ldbath Fields, 211. at Walker's brewery, Limehouse, 211. at the North Surrey Schools, Anerley, . at the Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, 212. _ , , , at the Victoria terminus of the London Brighton and South Coast Rail- way, 212. at Old Maiden, 213. at Messrs. Waltham Brothers'brew- ery, Stoekwell, 213. at Greenwich Hospital,^214. at Watford, chalk, 214. sunk by Mr. Paten, recent, 215. at Harrow, 215. Edgeware public, 216. at the London Orphan Asylum, Watford, 217. at Alperton, near Ealing, 217. at Berkhampstoad for supply of the town, 218. at, the Three Counties Asylum, Arlesey, 221. and boring at Rugby, in Luis and New Keil .Sandstone, 227. , n! Ttettenhall, near Wolverhampton, description of, 240. Weils, supply of water to, uo. ancient mode of procuring water from, 4. Ewbank'sdescription of anc.enl, 4. Wells, by means of a curb, origin of sinking, 5. Peruvian, 13. of London, shallow surface, 18. diagram illustrating the rise of water in. 20. description of artesian, 20. pumping from the London, 27. between Watford and London, water-level in, 27. variations of water-level in the London, 29. permanent depression of water- level in, 30, 31. Davidson, on the London, 31. of the London breweries, 34. at Hampstead Road, 34. affected by faults in the Tertiary Stiata, 39. in Essex and the east side of Lon- don, 39. sunk through London Clay, rise of water in, 56. - of London and the Tertiary Sands, 59. in Drift-gravel, covering the Lon- don clay, 60. in ditto, in various parts of Eng- land, 60. and borings in the Gault, 79. in Oxford Clay containing iodine and bromine, 105 in the New Red Sandstone, 117. supply of water to, 142. height of water in ; influence of faults on, 147. in Liverpool, yield of, 148. at Tettenhall, near Wolverhamp- ton, 148. of the metropolis, 172. of various kinds, 173. of Liverpool, water yielded by, 149. situation of the, 15 and borings for procuring sup] lies of water, 171. sunk in diluvial sand or gravel] at Liverpool, public, 151, 152. increase of yield in certain, 152. 153. 151. tables of yield of, sinking, on the cost of. 178. m New Red Sandstone of B.r- mingham and Wolverhampton. 223. ■ and sinkings in the New Re 1 Sandstone, 224. at Wolverhampton, in the New I Sandstone, 226. and well-sinking, cone theory of, 160, 161. lodges or lodgments at the bottom of well9, 161. fluctuations of water in Liverpool, diminution in the yield of Liver- pool, 163. in various kinds of strata, Con- struction of, 175.
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