The Water Supply Sewerage And Plumbing Of Modern City Buildings PDF Download

Excerpt from The Water Supply, Sewerage and Plumbing of Modern City Buildings This book is the outgrowth of various lectures on the water supply OF buildings and on plumbing, which the author was requested to prepare for engineering societies, and also of some essays written for technical journals. These articles and lectures have been put in a revised and enlarged form, new illustrations and many diagrams and tables have bem added, and thus the entire subject-matter has been brought up to date. The book deals with the subject from a practical standpoint, being written by a practicing engineer, who has devoted many years to the Special engineering topics under consideration. The chapters while correlated to each other, are purposely so written that each one is complete in itself, and may be read or studied without reference to the others. While this necessarily involves some slight repetitions, the author nevertheless adopted this form because it seemed to him to have certain merits and advantages. Chapter I presents in an elementary form the Essentials of the Sanitary and Hydraulic Work, as applied to Modern Buildings, chie y those in cities. 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."