On the action of water upon lead pipes / being a translation from the French of M. Belgrand ; with introductory remarks by W. Sedgwick Saunders.

  • Belgrand, E. (Eugène), 1810-1878.
Date:
1881
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Credit: On the action of water upon lead pipes / being a translation from the French of M. Belgrand ; with introductory remarks by W. Sedgwick Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Gentlemen, Agreeably to the instructions of your Honourable Court, dated the 27th September last, I present to you the following translation of the essay of ]\I. Belgrand on the action of water on lead pipes. t In rendering the same into English I have endeavoured to convey the information it contains without strictly adhering to the exact verbiage of the author, a course found necessary owdng to the many technicahties with which it abounds, and for which I have been unable to find a hteral equivalent ; whilst it is, however, a perfectly/ree translation, the scientific details dealt wfith have been scrupulously reproduced. The action of waters upon lead had been long recognised by chemists of all countries, and before B