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Author: Grand Junction Water-Works CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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The Dolphin: Or, Grand Junction Nuisance, Proving that Seven Thousand Families in Westminster and Its Suburbs are Supplied with Water in a State Offensive to the Sight ... and Destructive to Health. [By John Wright.]
Author: Grand Junction Water-Works CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Chelsea to Cairo-- 'Taylor-made' Water Through Eleven Reigns and in Six Continents
Author: Gwilym RobertsPublisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727734112
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book records the history of John Taylor and Sons and their predecessors. Gwilym Roberts describes civilisation as a product of engineering. In this book he demonstrates how mankind's dependence on technology goes back to the earliest civilisations, when irrigation systems enabled our ancestors to abandon a nomadic existence and when artisans produced the artefacts needed for both existence and recreation. The author acknowledges that engineers have built on the discoveries and inventions of scientists and converted the earth's natural resources into the energy and goods on which our modern civilisation entirely depends. He describes engineers as the heroes of the nineteenth century, but the unsung heroes of the twentieth who have provided modern clean water supplies, which is one of the principal reasons for our present longevity and good health. The foundations of our modern urban water supply systems had to await the technical developments of the 19th century industrial revolution and the establishment of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1818. These developments permitted such innovations as cast iron mains, steam-driven pumps, upstream abstraction, impounding reservoirs and ultimately, constant service. Chelsea to Cairois an interesting narrative on how today's water and public health engineers have continued to strive and achieve the sophisticated facilities expected by society, and the high standards demanded by legislators. In the developing world, engineers have played a major role in improving living conditions and helping governments cope with the problems caused by phenomenal population growth. From the establishment of the Chelsea Waterworks Company in 1722 to the ongoing multi-billion pound Cairo Wastewater Project, this book describes many large and small projects undertaken by John Taylor & Sons over a three hundred year period. Historians, students and practitioners in the water industry will find this book a valuable and interesting reference source. It chronicles a magical era of expansion of British engineers into overseas markets which has led to engineering design and advice becoming one of the UK's most valuable invisible exports. About the author: Gwilym Roberts joined John Taylor & Sons in 1947 and became a partner in 1956. He played a significant role in developing the firm into a major international consultancy until 1987 when John Taylor & Sons merged with Freeman Fox & Partners to form the Acer Group, where the author became founding chairman. By the time he retired in 1992 the firm had worked in nearly forty countries and staff numbers had grown to over 2,300. Gwilym Roberts was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1986 and appointed CBE the following year.
Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 1895-1904
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The past, the present, and the probable future supply of water to London. In a letter
Author: John Loude TabbernerA History of Private Bill Legislation
Author: Frederick CliffordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134569548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
This is Volume II of two of a history of the private bill legislation originally published in 1887. Meant by the author as serving as a Jubilee record of the Queen Victoria’s reign, it covers the topics of highways, the water supply of London from the seventeenth century, local authorities before and after the Conquest, corporation of the City of London, Marine life and fire insurance, the Docks on the Thames, Fees on private bills and preliminary inquiries and public legislation.
Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Contains the proceedings of scientific societies.
The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art
Author: Parched City
Author: Emma M. JonesPublisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780991592
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Safe drinking water is essential to daily life. Meeting that demand with bottled water is a luxury too far, argues Emma Jones. She is not a lone critic of the packaged water industry. However, this author looks to history for solutions to a major sustainability problem: in the design, management and use of the city. With original stories from London's archives, Parched City tracks drinking-water obsessions through a popular architectural history tale. ,
Liquid Pleasures
Author: Proffessor John BurnettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134788797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a comfort, an indulgence or a social activity. Liquid Pleasures is an engrossing study of the social history of drinks in Britain from the late seventeenth century to the present. From the first cup of tea at breakfast to mid-morning coffee, to an eveining beer and a 'night-cap', John Burnett discusses individual drinks and drinking patterns which have varied not least with personal taste but also with age, gender, region and class. He shows how different ages have viewed the same drink as either demon poison or medicine. John Burnett traces the history of what has been drunk in Britain from the 'hot beverage revolution' of the late seventeenth century - connecting drinks and related substances such as sugar to empire - right up to the 'cold drinks revolution' of the late twentieth century, examining the factors which have determined these major changes in our dietary habits.
London
Author: John BroichPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822978660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out—in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.