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THIS book deals exclusively with a special subject relating to water-supply, namely, the design and construction of metal stand-pipes and tanks for storing up water at a sufficient elevation to provide adequate pressure for its proper distribution. An illustration of a stand-pipe, 20 feet in diameter and 120 feet high, at St. Augustine, Florida, is given in the frontispiece; and a view of a high cylindrical tank raised on a tower, or more strictly a trestle, consisting of light metal standards braced together, erected for the water-supply of West Tampa, Florida, is shown opposite p. 116; and these two examples very fairly indicate the structures which form the subject of the volume. These stand-pipes and tanks, besides serving as reservoirs for the storage of an adequate supply of water to meet any sudden inreased demand, and admitting of a temporary suspension of the pumping, are also valuable as regulators of the distribution, and as relief-valves for preventing the occurrence of undue stresses in the pipes in the process of pumping.
Towers and Tanks for Wafer-Works. The Theory and Practice of their Design and Construction.
By J. N. Hazlehurst. Pp. ix + 216. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1901.) Price 10s. 6d.
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Towers and Tanks for Wafer-Works The Theory and Practice of their Design and Construction . Nature 64, 525 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064525a0
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