Author: Chicago (Ill.). Board of Sewerage CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Chicago Sewerage
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Board of Sewerage CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Report of the Results of Examinations Made in Relation to Sewerage in Several European Cities in the Winter of 1856-7
Author: Ellis Sylvester ChesbroughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Chicago Sewerage
Author: Ellis Sylvester ChesbroughPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331821574
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Excerpt from Chicago Sewerage: Report of the Results of Examinations Made in Relation to Sewerage in Several European Cities, in the Winter of 1856-7 Although the site of Liverpool is so different, and much more favorable than that of Chicago, With regard to drainage, there is much in the experience of that city interesting to this. 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.
Chicago Sewerage
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Board of Sewerage CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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The Tunnel under the Lake
Author: Benjamin SellsPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810134756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Despite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action. Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel’s terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment. When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world." Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. A wealth of fascinating appendixes round out Sells’s account, which will delight those interested in Chicago history, water resources, and the history of technology and engineering.
City of the Century
Author: Donald L. MillerPublisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795339852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world’s most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of 1871 and several cholera epidemics, to its winner-take-all politics, dynamic business empires, breathtaking architecture, its diverse cultures, and its multitude of writers, journalists, and artists, Chicago’s story is violent, inspiring, passionate, and fascinating from the first page to the last. The winner of the prestigious Great Lakes Book Award, given to the year’s most outstanding books highlighting the American heartland, City of the Century has received consistent rave reviews since its publication in 1996, and was made into a six-hour film airing on PBS’s American Experience series. Written with energetic prose and exacting detail, it brings Chicago’s history to vivid life. “With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago history.” —John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times “Brims with life, with people, surprise, and with stories.” —David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of John Adams and Truman “An invaluable companion in my journey through Old Chicago.” —Erik Larson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Devil in the White City
Report of the Engineer Appointed by the Town of Watertown on the Subjects of Drainage and Sewerage
Author: Watertown (Mass.). EngineerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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City Water, City Life
Author: Carl SmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602251X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Check List of Chicago Ante-fire Imprints, 1851-1871
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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