Abstract
IN this volume we have an elementary work on water engineering, containing a sufficient account of the principles and construction of waterworks to be of real use to engineers, and forming at the same time a good introduction to more elaborate treatises. The volume is based upon a series of articles which appeared in the Builder last year, and it contains valuable information upon all matters connected with water supply. It is, indeed, what its secondary title represents it to be, namely, “a practical handbook on the supply of water and construction of waterworks for small country districts.” The book is full of details on points which are continually before waterworks engineers; and though these details are mostly rules and formulæ which have to be accepted without being understood, they will be of great assistance in planning schemes of water supply -and in carrying out the works.
Rural Water Supply.
By Allan Greenwell W. T. Curry Pp. 210. (London: Crosby Lockvvood and Son, 1895.)
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Rural Water Supply. Nature 52, 617 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052617b0
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