Author: John BurnetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
History of the Water Supply to Glasgow, from the Commencement of the Present Century ... and an Appendix, Containing Tables of Capital ... and Chemical and Medical Reports on the Quality of Water Supplied in Various Localities
Author: John BurnetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
History of the Water Supply to Glasgow, from the Commencement of the Present Century, Etc
Author: John Burnet (Secretary to Glasgow Corporation Water Works Commissioners.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
History of the Water Supply of Glasgow, from the commencement of the present century
Author: John BURNET (Secretary to Glasgow Corporation Water Works Commissioners.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
History of the Water Supply to Glasgow, From the Commencement of the Present Century ... and an Appendix, Containing Tables of Capital ... and Chemica
Author: John BurnetPublisher:
ISBN: 9781017576276
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History of the Water Supply to Glasgow, from the Commencement of the Present Century ... and an Appendix, Containing Tables of Capital ... and Chemica
Author: John BurnetPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295526505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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History of the Water Supply to Glasgow, from the Commencement of the Present Century
Author: John BurnetHistory of the Water Supply to Glasgow, from the Commencement of the Present Century. With Descriptions of the Water Works Projected, Executed, and from Time to Time in Operation. And an Appendix Containing Tables of Capital, Revenue, and Expenditure of the Loch Katrine and Gorbals Water Works; Average Daily Quantity of Water Supplied to Glasgow and Neighbourhood; Extensions of Piping; Rainfall in the Different Districts; Analyses of Different Waters; and Chemical and Medical Reports of the Quality of Water Supplied in Various Localities
Author: John BurnetPublisher:
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820
Author: Leslie TomoryPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422042
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth? Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks. The city’s water infrastructure even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry. Tomory examines how the joint-stock form became popular with water companies, providing a stable legal structure that allowed for expansion. He also explains how the roots of the London water industry’s divergence from the Continent and even from other British cities was rooted both in the size of London as a market and in the late seventeenth-century consumer revolution. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.
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Author: Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries
Author: Andreas N. AngelakisPublisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1780404840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Most of the technological developments relevant to water supply and wastewater date back to more than to five thousand years ago. These developments were driven by the necessity to make efficient use of natural resources, to make civilizations more resistant to destructive natural elements, and to improve the standards of life, both at public and private level. Rapid technological progress in the 20th century created a disregard for past sanitation and wastewater and stormwater technologies that were considered to be far behind the present ones. A great deal of unresolved problems in the developing world related to the wastewater management principles, such as the decentralization of the processes, the durability of the water projects, the cost effectiveness, and sustainability issues, such as protection from floods and droughts were intensified to an unprecedented degree. New problems have arisen such as the contamination of surface and groundwater. Naturally, intensification of unresolved problems has led to the reconsideration of successful past achievements. This retrospective view, based on archaeological, historical, and technical evidence, has shown two things: the similarity of physicochemical and biological principles with the present ones and the advanced level of wastewater engineering and management practices. Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries presents and discusses the major achievements in the scientific fields of sanitation and hygienic water use systems throughout the millennia, and compares the water technological developments in several civilizations. It provides valuable insights into ancient wastewater and stormwater management technologies with their apparent characteristics of durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability. These technologies are the underpinning of modern achievements in sanitary engineering and wastewater management practices. It is the best proof that “the past is the key for the future”. Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries is a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses of Water Resources, Civil Engineering, Hydraulics, Ancient History, Archaeology, Environmental Management and is also a valuable resource for all researchers in the these fields. Authors: Andreas N. Angelakis, Institute of Iraklion, Iraklion, Greece and Joan B. Rose, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA