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Excerpt from A Treatise on Waterworks for the Supply of Cities and Towns: With a Description of the Principal Geological Formations of England as Influencing Supplies of Water, Details of Engines and Pumping Machinery for Raising Water
The subject of raising large volumes of water by means of steam power engages unusual attention at this time, not only in reference to Waterworks, but also as bearing on the sewerage of towns, and especially that of the Metropolis. I have therefore dwelt at some length on the questions connected with actual engine-power, the nature and extent of the surplus or auxiliary Power which ought to be employed, and the American system of using high-pressur'e engines for the auxiliary power. The calculations and tables which are given in this part of the Work show the great economy resulting from this practice.
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