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Excerpt from Towers and Tanks for Water-Works: The Theory and Practice of Their Design Construction
The custom has been, to a greater extent than in any other engineering work of like importance, to buy a stand-pipe much as a barrel of ?our would be bought; the contract or agreement would be for a stand-pipe so high and so wide, the material and workmanship to be first class in every respect.
Without previous experience, and unable to secure any degree of exact information as to the best practice for stand-pipe design, it would be amusing, if not so serious a matter, to compare the emaciated paragraph, its stock phrases and blanket clauses, so lax that any rule-of-thumb boiler-maker can safely provide almost anything in the shape of a tank, provided it holds together and does not leak too badly, with the plethoric clause, wasting much good paper and printer''s ink in padding the specifications to give an important appearance to the technical description dealing with requirements for cast - iron pipe, which probably gets its first inspection when the pressure is applied from the pumping-engines.
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The custom has been, to a greater extent than in any other engineering work of like importance, to buy a stand-pipe much as a barrel of ?our would be bought; the contract or agreement would be for a stand-pipe so high and so wide, the material and workmanship to be first class in every respect.
Without previous experience, and unable to secure any degree of exact information as to the best practice for stand-pipe design, it would be amusing, if not so serious a matter, to compare the emaciated paragraph, its stock phrases and blanket clauses, so lax that any rule-of-thumb boiler-maker can safely provide almost anything in the shape of a tank, provided it holds together and does not leak too badly, with the plethoric clause, wasting much good paper and printer''s ink in padding the specifications to give an important appearance to the technical description dealing with requirements for cast - iron pipe, which probably gets its first inspection when the pressure is applied from the pumping-engines.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
J. N. Hazlehurst
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780265465936
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 353
Paperback
Contributors
Author
J. N. Hazlehurst
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781330383636
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 355
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