The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 407
nts a design for a main sewer,the novelty of which consists in forming it in two separate cham-bers, the upper or larger portion A forming a subway for meansof access to the lower sewer B, and house-drains E, E, and alsofor the passage of surface-water from inlets D, D. It may also beused for… … The engraving represents a transverse vertical section of asewer constructed on the principle described, showing the dia-phragm and trap. A, the subway. B, the main sewer, which is separated by thediaphragm C. This diaphragm is continued throughout the entirelength of the sewer, but has inserted at…
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