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:: 1870

Credit: 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.

370/388

$Enpines at East London Waterworks, puin|)iiig. 198. ■ drawing of Boulton and Watt's, 199. draw- ing of Cornish. 210. duty of American pumping. 205. at Chicago and Broolllyn. 206. on calculating tlie power of, 221. mode of calculating the power of pumpin;r. 228. proportions of Cornish, 230. expansion of steam in working, 236. calculation of power in American, 237. Haswell's formulafor calculating power of, 238. for Albany and Brooklyn Works, 240. non-condensing American. 242. for pumping water, on the cost of, 244. table of the cost of, 245. . remarks on the cost of, 250. of the South Staffordshire Water- works. 251. . beams of pumping, 252. duty of pumping. 255. work performed by Cornish, 265. • comparative cost of Cornish. 2/1. Hocking on the annual expenses of Cornish pumping. 273. tables of horse-power of Cornish, 343. 1 Darlington's, 345. of South Staffordshire Works, specifications for. 349. Engineers, table of proportions adopted by Cornish, 231. Evaporation, 4. of rain, 13. Dal ton'a experiments on, 14. Dickinson's experiments on, 15. Ewbank's description of ancient wells, 4. Expansion of steacn in engines, 236. Experiments much refiuired on the pas- sage of water through sluices, 313. . on weirs. 320. Faults, springs caused by, 19. 22, 23, in the chalk and Tertiary Strata, 36. and disturbances of the chalk near London. :J8. atLcwishamand New Cross, effect of, 38. diagram showing influences of, 39. in the hondon basin, on tlic two principal, 40. ol tlie New Hcd Sandstone influ- encing the hcightof water in wells, 12/. in the coal-measurca, 131. Filter-beds, 294. ■ mode of clean.iing, 297- of the Chelsea Company, 300. Filter-beds, cost and capacity of, 302. Filtralion, Scotch system of tri])lc, 296. Fittoij's description of Lower Greensand, 83. ■ subdivision of Lower Greensand into tliree sejjarate groups. 85. on the thickness of Portland sand and stone. 101. Flow of water in open channels, experi- meuts on, 304. ■ of w ater over weirs, 319. through pipes. 332. of water through pipes, examples show ing mode of caleuhtting. 337. Force-punipa with solid plunger-piston, 193. ■ drawing of, 195. Forcing plunger-pumps at East London Waterworks. 208. Forest marble of Bath and Frome. 105. Formulie for flow of water through pipes, 335. French method of boring, I69. Friction of water flowing through pipes, 336. Fullers' earth formation of the south- west of England. 98. under the Great Oolite, 104. thickness of. 105. • springs thrown out by the, 106. thickness and subdirision of, 106. Garland's paper on pumping-engines at Birmingham, 200,204. Oauguigs of liagshot waters by Mr. Kammel and iMr. Quick, 71. by I\lr. Batenian, 72. Gauging the discharge of rivers and streams, 303. rivers by means of surface velo- city, 306. ■ by means of a float, 308. of water passing through sluices or orifices, 310. by means of current meters, 314. by means of weirs. 319. over weirs, coetticients for. 322. over a weir, Beardmorc's method of, 325. over weirs, importance of accu- rate, 326. graduated rule for, 327. Gault, very important with reference to the saturation of the chalk, position of the, 41. clay, 77. lorniation described. 80. thickness, area, and extent of the, 81. General Board of Health, report of the, 63. as to cost of bringing water from the Bagshot Sand, estimate of tlic, 64. remarks on the project of the, 69.$