Author: William Paul Gerhard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-13

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780265265505

Excerpt from The Sanitation, Water Supply and Sewage Disposal of Country Houses In the second part detailed advice is given as to how to procure a satisfactory water supply. The sources of water, the various modes of raising it, the storage in reservoirs, elevated tanks or underground pressure tanks, and finally water distribution, are dwelt on at length and illustrated by actual examples from the author's engineering practicer This part of the book is the outcome of a number of lectures given recently by the author before the Civil Engineering Section and the Engineering Society of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.