A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-Supply Engineering

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-Supply Engineering: Relating to the Hydrology, Hydrodynamics, and Practical Construction of Water-Works, in North America At the close of the year 1875, fifty of the chief cities of the American Union had provided themselves with public water sup plies at an aggregate cost of not less than ninety-five million dollars. And two hundred and fifty lesser cities and towns were also provided with liberal public water supplies at an aggregate cost of not less than fifty-five million dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.