Titre et auteur:

Water-supply and public health engineering / edited by Denis Smith.

Publication:

Aldershot : Ashgate Variorum, c1999.

Description:

xxxiii, 393 p : ill, facsims, maps, plans, ports ; 25 cm.

Série(s):

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p.xxx-xxxiii) and indexes.
Attitudes to Roman engineering and the question of the inverted siphon / Norman A.F. Smith -- Our debt to Roman engineering : the water supply of Lincoln to the present day / M.J.T. Lewis -- Sir Hugh Myddelton and the New River / G.C. Berry -- George Sorocold of Derby : a pioneer of water supply / F. Williamson -- The old water-supply of Seville / George Higgin -- Portsmouth's water supply, 1800-1860 / Mary Hallett -- The impounding reservoirs of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company, 1845-1905 / R.W. Rennison -- The old Croton Aqueduct / George H. Rappole -- Bringing water to the Crescent City : Benjamin Latrobe and the New Orleans waterworks system / Gary A. Donaldson -- Urban sanitation in preindustrial Japan / Susan B. Hanley -- The development of Victorian infrastructures : the example of Portsmouth / Robert A. Otter -- Edwin Chadwick and the engineers, 1842-1854 : systems and antisystems in the pipe-and-brick sewers war / Christopher Hamlin -- The separate vs. combined sewer problem : a case study in urban technology and design choice / Joel A. Tarr -- Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819-1891) : engineer to the Metropolitan Board of Works / Denis Smith -- Eug`ene Belgrand (1810-1878) : civil engineer, geologist and pioneer hydrologist / George Atkinson.

ISBN:

0860787540
9780860787549

Sujet:

Sanitary engineering History.
Water-supply engineering History.
Water-supply History.
Technique sanitaire Histoire.
Eau Approvisionnement Technique Histoire.
Eau Approvisionnement Histoire.
Sanitary engineering.
Water-supply.
Water-supply engineering.

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Smith, Denis.
Smith, Denis, 1956-
Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 5.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 210614
Cote: TD345.W3 1999
Statut: Disponible