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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    Ferrule, stop valve, 271 Ferrules (pea), in service pipes, 254 screw and tapered, for connecting main and service pipe, 268 screw-down and plug, for connecting service pipes with mains, 269 Filling filter beds, 104 Filter beds, 42, 43, 44, 45, 85, 92, 93, 94 ■ adding to number of, 22 admission of water to, 110 arrangement of, 98 cleaning of, 112 connection with settling reser- voirs and clean water or service reservoirs, 143 depth of, 97 ■ distribution well for, 112 form of plan of, 96 regulating the flow of water into, 111 vertical section of, 102 Filtered water for filling filter beds, 104, 107 Filtering beds, number of, 95 heating of water in, 101 ■ head, 101, 103 speed, 94, 127, 130 ■ regulating, 104, 105 Filter press for filtering off carbonate of lime after softening water by Clark's process, 123 Filters, Pasteur's, 13 Filtration area, 127 ■ best avoided when not neces- sary, 281 natural, 124 of water by sand, 13, 79 ■ theory of, 280 through sand, 77, 78, 94 ■ ■ theory of, 79, 280 Fire-clay pipes, 219 Fire extinction, boiler reserve necessary for, 207 distribution systems suit- able for, 188 provision for, 205 — provision of pumping, power for, 161 Fire extinction, reserve of pumping power for, 206 small mains to be pro- portioned with a view to fire extinction only, 202, 209 water to be provided for, 189 Fire hose, 189, 208, 210, 216 — hydrants, 190, 193, 202, 209 ball, sluice-valve and screw- down, 212 — form and size of, 209 — locating, 203, 209 prevention of freezing of, 216 — requirements of, 209 — — size of, 209, 215 — — spacing and position, 208 — stand-pipe, 212, 213 — ■—■ sunk and pillar, 209 — insurance by waterworks, 45 — jet nozzles, 216 — provision against, by high pressure in water mains, 183 — — in service or clean water reservoirs, 130 — provision for in water-tower tanks, 135 Fissuring of sand in filter beds, 103 Flanged joints for cast-iron pipes, 219 for steel pipes, steel flanged joints, 237 Flap valves for valve towers, 61 Floating pipe for drawing off water from settling reservoirs, 92 pipes, 143 Flood water in impounding reservoir, 68 Floor of filter beds, 98 of settling reservoirs, 87 Flow of water in conduits, pipes, and open channels, 167 in pipes, 177, 182 Fluctuation in consumption of water, 19 Flushing water-closets, 243 Fly-wheel engines, 149, 155 Form of cross section of covered conduit, 174 ■ of open channels, 170 ■ of filter beds in plan, 96