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Humbers New Work on Water-Supply. 



A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE on the WATER-SUPPLY 

 of CITIES and TOWNS. By WILLIAM HUMBER, Assoc. Inst. 

 C.E., and M. Inst. M.E. Author of "Cast and Wrought Iron 

 Bridge Construction," &c. &c. This work, it is expected, will con- 

 tain about 50 Double Plates, and upwards of 300 pages of Text. 

 Imp. 4to, half bound in morocco. [/ the press. 



*#* In accumulating information for this volume, the Author has 

 been very liberally assisted by several professional friends, who have 

 made this department of engineering their special study. He has thus 

 been in a position to prepare a work which, within the limits of a 

 single volume, will supply the reader with the most complete and 

 reliable information upon all subjects, theoretical and practical, con- 

 nected with water supply. Through the kindness of Messrs. Ander- 

 son, Bateman, Hawksley, Homersham, Baldwin Latham, Lawson, 

 Milne, Quick, Rawlinson, Simpson, and others, several works, con- 

 structed and in course of construction, from the designs of these gentle- 

 men, will be fully illustrated and described. 



AMONGST OTHER IMPORTANT SUBJECTS THE FOLLOWING WILL BE TREATED 

 IN THE TEXT : 



Historical Sketch of the means that have been proposed and adopted for the Supply 

 of Water. Water and the Foreign Matter usually associated with it. Rainfall and 

 Evaporation. Springs and Subterranean Lakes. Hydraulics. The Selection of 

 Sites for Water Works. Wells. Reservoirs. Filtration and Filter Beds. Reservoir 

 and Filter Bed Appendages. Pumps and Appendages. Pumping Machinery. 

 Culverts and Conduits, Aqueducts, Syphons, &c. Distribution of Water. Water 

 Meters and general House Fittings. Cost of Works for the Supply of Water. Con- 

 stant and Intermittent Supply. Suggestions for preparing Plans, &c. &c., together 

 with a Description of the numerous Works illustrated, viz : Aberdeen, Bideford, 

 Cockermouth, Dublin, Glasgow, Loch Katrine, Liverpool, Manchester, Rotherham, 

 Sunderland, and several others ; with copies of the Contract, Drawings and Specifi- 

 cation in each case. 



