Author: Frederick John Alban
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Organization and Administration of the Waterworks Undertaking
Author: Frederick John Alban
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Annual Report of the Waterworks Department
Author: Cincinnati Water Works
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Category : Cincinnati
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category : Cincinnati
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Water Technology in the Middle Ages
Author: Roberta J. Magnusson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080186626X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies -- how they worked, what uses the water served -- and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity. Mindful of theoretical questions about what hastens technological change and how society and technology mutually influence one another, the author supplies a thoughtful and instructive study. Archeological, historical, and literary evidence vividly depicts those who designed, constructed, and used medieval water systems and demonstrates a shift from a public-administrative to a private-innovative framework -- one that argues for the importance of local initiatives. "The following chapters attempt to chart a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of technological and social determinism. While writing them, I have tried to strike a balance between the technical and human aspects of medieval hydraulic systems, and to remember that beneath the welter of documents and diffusion patterns, configurations and components, ordinances and expenditures, lie the perceptions, the choices, and often the plain hard work of individual men and women." -- from the Preface
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080186626X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies -- how they worked, what uses the water served -- and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity. Mindful of theoretical questions about what hastens technological change and how society and technology mutually influence one another, the author supplies a thoughtful and instructive study. Archeological, historical, and literary evidence vividly depicts those who designed, constructed, and used medieval water systems and demonstrates a shift from a public-administrative to a private-innovative framework -- one that argues for the importance of local initiatives. "The following chapters attempt to chart a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of technological and social determinism. While writing them, I have tried to strike a balance between the technical and human aspects of medieval hydraulic systems, and to remember that beneath the welter of documents and diffusion patterns, configurations and components, ordinances and expenditures, lie the perceptions, the choices, and often the plain hard work of individual men and women." -- from the Preface
Accountants' Index
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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The Budget of the United States Government
Author: United States
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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Transactions of the British Association of Water Works Engineers
Author: Institute of Water Engineers
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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The Industrial Arts Index
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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Annual Report - City of Atlanta, Ga., Department of Water Works
Author: Atlanta (Ga.). Dept. of Water Works
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Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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California Municipalities
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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