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 Numbers New Work on Water-Supply. 



A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE on the WATER-SUPPLY 

 of CITIES and TOWNS. By WILLIAM HUMBER, A-M. Inst. 

 C.E., and M. Inst. M.E. Illustrated with 50 Double Plates, 

 I Single Plate, Coloured Frontispiece, and upwards of 250 Wood- 

 cuts, and containing 400 pages of Text, Imp. 4to, 6/. 6s. elegantly 

 and substantially half-bound in morocco. 



List of Contents : 



I. Historical Sketch of some of the ; Machinery. XII. Conduits. XIII. Dis- 

 means that have been adopted for the ! tribution of Water. XIV. Meters, Ser- 

 Supply of Water to Cities and Towns. I vice Pipes, and House Fittings. XV. The 

 II. Water and the Foreign Matter usually ! Law and Economy of Water Works. 

 associated with it. III. Rainfall and ! XVI. Constant and Intermittent Supply. 

 Evaporation. IV. Springs and the water- XVII. Description of Plates. Appen- 



bearing formations of various districts. 

 V. Measurement and Estimation of the 

 Flow of Water. VI. On the Selection of 

 the Source of Supply. VII. Wells. 

 VIII Reservoirs. IX. The Purification 

 of Water. X. Pumps. XI. Pumping 



dices, giving Tables of Rites of Supply^ 

 Velocities, &c. &c., together with Specifi- 

 cations of several Works illustrated, amc ng 

 which will be found : Aberdeen, Bideford, 

 Canterbury, Dundee, Halifax, Lambeth, 

 Rotherham, Dublin, and others. 



" The most systematic and valuable work upon water supply hitherto produced in 

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 throughout by an exhaustiveness much more distinctive of French and German than 

 of English technical treatises." Engineer. 



Humbers Great Work on Bridge Construction. 



A COMPLETE and PRACTICAL TREATISE on CAST and 

 WROUGHT-IRON BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, including 

 Iron Foundations. In Three Parts Theoretical, Practical, and 

 Descriptive. By WILLIAM HUMBER, A-M. Inst. C.E., and M. Inst. 

 M.E. Third Edition, with 115 Double Plates. In 2 vols. imp. 410, 

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