Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 57
heights with the corresponding ones iu the same reservoir-division; yetthey have their outlet through one pipe only. They are, together with the towers, of smaller dimensionsin length and width. The Aqueduct-Line continued.—From the mouth of the pipes at the 6th Avenue, the aqueduct, consist-ing… … Scalb.—1 inch — 40 feet. Mights. On the summit ot the latter air-cocks are put, to allow the air to escape. At the lowest pointsof the depressions there are outlets, in order to get rid of the sand which might collect here. The Distributing Reservoir is also divided into two divisions, an eastern…
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