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Category : Tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Chicago (Ill.). Commission on City Expenditures
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Jack Wing
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Category : Tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Carl Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602265X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.

Author: Chicago Tunnel Terminal Corporation
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: Stanley Greenberg
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568983883
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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A collection of photographs which profile the aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks of New York's water system.

Author: Bruce Moffat
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ISBN: 9780916374549
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Benjamin Sells
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810134744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Despite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action. Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel’s terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment. When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world." Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. A wealth of fascinating appendixes round out Sells’s account, which will delight those interested in Chicago history, water resources, and the history of technology and engineering.

Author: Chicago (Ill.). Bureau of Engineering
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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