Hydraulia: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Waterworks of London and the Contrivances for Supplying Other Great CitiesSimpkin, 1835 - 454 pages |
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abundance Act of Parliament adapted advantages afford amount aqueduct arches bagnios basin baths Burdett canal channel Chelsea circumstances cisterns Commissioners Committee conduits considerable consists Constantinople constructed contrivances conveying water cubic feet diameter Dioclesian district effect elevation employed engineer erected establishments estimated expense filter flows formed formerly fountains furnished gallons Grand Junction Grand Junction Canal height Hence houses improvements inches ingenious inhabitants iron pipes latter length likewise London Bridge marble means ment metropolis miles Mills Minutes of Evidence nearly object obtained occasioned operations Ourcq pany pecuniary period persons portion present principal probably procure proved pump purpose quantity of water realize Regent's Canal remarkable render reservoir river Clyde river Colne River Company river Lea river Thames Romans Rome scheme side Sir Francis Burdett situate springs statement steam-engines stream Street supply of water Telford Thames tion tunnels various Water Companies water-works whole