The water supply of towns and the construction of waterworks : a practical treatise for the use of engineers and students of engineering / by W.K. Burton ; to which is appended a paper on the effects of earthquakes on waterworks by John Milne.

Date:
1894
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Credit: The water supply of towns and the construction of waterworks : a practical treatise for the use of engineers and students of engineering / by W.K. Burton ; to which is appended a paper on the effects of earthquakes on waterworks by John Milne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Domestic meter system, 255 supply of water, 18 Double acting pumps, 148 stand pipes, 141 Drain pipe for settling reservoirs, 93 Drainage of filter beds, 98 Draining settling reservoirs, 87 Drange, James, 75 Draw-off pipe for settling reservoir, 92 posts, 2G6 Drinking fountains, 260 Dry and wet well valve towers, 60 Dry-sand casting of pipes, 232 Duncan, D. J. Russell, 238 Duty of centrifugal pumps, 157 of high pressure, compound and triple expansion engines, 157 of pumping engines, 154 working at a vary- ing speed, 162 —■— of pumping machinery, testing, 162 of small engines, 159 Dwarf wall at top of earthwork dam, 65, 275 EARTHENWARE filters, 77 Earthquake countries, importance of by-pass pipes in, 145 Earthquake countries, precautions in con- nection with settling reser- voirs in, 88 —■ buildings in, 278 site of waterworks in, 274 effect of, on reservoir of Yoko- hama waterworks, 67 great, at Lisbon, 274 of Japan (1891), 277 waves in reservoirs, 67 xEarthquakes, effect of, on water towers, 136 , on waterworks, vi., 273 possible effect of, 011 earth- work dams of reservoirs, 67 Earthwork dams, 51, 52, 53 Easton, Edwai-d, 125 Edinburgh waterworks, 200 Efficiency of boilers and engines, 156 of pumping engines, 207 Eiffel tower, 184 Eisclohr, Dr., 9 Electric motors for raising water, 165 Elevated reservoir, 207 — tanks, 134, 147, 201, 207 in earthquake countries, 277 Embanked open channels, 123 Engine foundations, 163 Engines for pumping, simple, compound, triple expansion (or tri-com- pound), and quadruple expan- sion, 151 high pressure, 152, 162 pumping, 149, 153 duty of, 154 steam pressure in, 55 English section of earthwork dams, 54 Estimation of capacity of impounding reservoirs, 50 Evaporation from water in reservoirs, 40 of water by coal, 156 Expansion gear, 159 differential, 161 of steam in pumping engines, 150 Extinction of fire, provision for, 205 Eytelwein's formula for the discharge of water in pipes, 181 FACTOR of safety for cast-iron pipes, 225 Fanning, v., 27, 29, 30, 31, 36,64, 66, 69, 141, 168, 180, 189, 202, 203, 209, 214, 223, 226 Faucet and spigot joints for cast-iron pipes, 219, 220, 229, 230 joints, steel, 238 Feed-water for boilers, 157 Ferrule, brass, for connecting main and service pipe, 268 ■ for connecting service pipe with main, without soldering, 268 for use with machine for boring and tapping pipes under pres- sure, 271 u 2