Water Supply Considered Mainly from a Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Wm Ripley Nichols
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ISBN: 9781330858110
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Excerpt from Water Supply Considered Mainly From a Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint The following pages contain, somewhat amplified, the substance of a course of "Lectures on Water Supply" which the author has been in the habit of delivering before certain classes at the Institute of Technology. It is primarily as an aid to engineering and other students at this and similar institutions that the book is printed. It is hoped, however, that the book will be found of service to young engineers, to persons in charge of water works, to water committees, and to others who are interested in the matter of water supply. The aim is not to present a complete treatise on water supply for the civil engineer, nor a treatise on water analysis for the chemist, nor a treatise on mycology for the botanist, and certainly not a treatise on sanitary science for the physician, but, rather, to occupy a territory which encroaches on the fields of these and other professions and which belongs exclusively to no one alone - ground, in fact, with which all who are professionally interested in water supply must be more or less familiar. The metric system of weights and measures is used, as well as the English; tables for the conversion of one system into the other will be found at the end of the volume. In the nomenclature of chemical substances, the old and more familiar terms are generally - although not exclusively employed - such as carbonate of soda and not sodic carbonate, sulphate of lime rather than sulphate of calcium. The author has quoted freely from other works on the subject, and from his own earlier reports, now mostly out of print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.