The Sanitation, Water Supply and Sewage Disposal of Country Houses

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D. Van Nostrand Company, 1909 - 328 стор.
 

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Сторінка v - ... country houses. The soil, the subsoil, surface drainage, aspect, healthful surroundings and those which are objectionable, the cellar of the house, the lighting, heating and ventilation, the water supply, sewerage and plumbing, are briefly discussed. 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,...
Сторінка 115 - is generally due to unconscious movements of the body or of the muscles of the hand. The experiments made show that these movements happen most frequently at places where the operator's experience has led him to believe that water may be found. The uselessness of the divining rod...
Сторінка 62 - ... in practice, to make constant additions to the volume of water flowing through a sewer by means of inlets entering at short intervals, and the aggregate area of the inlets is thus increased to very many times the area of the sewer itself. Where a proper inclination can be obtained, a pipe eighteen inches in diameter makes an ample sewer for a population of ten thousand. It was formerly the custom with architects and engineers to enlarge the area of any main pipe or sewer in proportion to the...
Сторінка 115 - The only advantage of employing a "water witch," as the operator of the divining rod is sometimes called, is that crudely skilled services are thus occasionally obtained...
Сторінка 104 - ... the following definitions which were agreed on by the members of the Division of Hydrology of the Survey as the most expedient at the present time. Artesian principle. — The artesian principle, which may be considered as identical with what is often known as the hydrostatic principle, is defined as the principle in virtue of which water confined in the materials of the earth's crust tends to rise to the level of the water surface at the highest point fronl which pressure is transmitted.
Сторінка 202 - CO/S FACTORY, NEWARK, NJ commonly known as a foot or end piece, the air pipe being connected at the other end to the air compressor. The compressed air is then forced through the air pipe into the foot piece and water pipe, and by its inherent expansive force, layers or pistons of air are formed in the water pipe, which lift and discharge the layers of water through the end of the water discharge pipe at the surface or tank.

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