Author: Sir Francis John Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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London Water Supply
Author: Sir Francis John Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
London Water Supply
Author: Sir Francis John Bolton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International Health Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International Health Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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London Water Supply: Including a History and Description of the London Waterworks, Statistical Tables, and Maps
Remarks on the Water Supply of London
Author: William Clay
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781437042887
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781437042887
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820
Author: Leslie Tomory
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This in-depth study explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors behind the infrastructure that transformed early modern London. Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. Historian Leslie Tomory shows how an explosion of consumer demand and new technologies imported from the Continent spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for cities across Europe and beyond. It even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This in-depth study explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors behind the infrastructure that transformed early modern London. Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. Historian Leslie Tomory shows how an explosion of consumer demand and new technologies imported from the Continent spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for cities across Europe and beyond. It even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks.
The London Water Supply
Author: Arthur Shadwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Government and Expertise
Author: Roy MacLeod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521534505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book offers selected perspectives on an important facet of new research into the administrative revolution: the idea of 'expertise', the role of 'experts' and of administrators and professionals in creating the technique of Victorian government.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521534505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book offers selected perspectives on an important facet of new research into the administrative revolution: the idea of 'expertise', the role of 'experts' and of administrators and professionals in creating the technique of Victorian government.
Rendered Obsolete
Author: Jamie L. Jones
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469674831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469674831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.
A Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions
Author: Robert Clarkson Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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A Bibliography of the World's Municipal Literature
Author: Robert Clarkson Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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