The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 70
at the lower valve, and by this means every up-strokeraised the surface within the main, a certain amount—the motionof the bucket and the supply through the lower valve being toorapid to admit of the escape of any significant quantity of waterbetween the bucket and the main. The experiment was… … 58 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. f February, SUPPLY OF WATER TO LONDON. Another scheme is hniug-ht forward for supplyin;; tlie metropoliswith water. It is proposed to talvC the sujjply from tlie riverThames, near Henley, at an elevation of 106 feet above low-watermark at London-bridge,…
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