Excerpt from Hydraulia: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Water Works of London, and the Contrivances for Supplying Other Great Cities, in Different Ages and CountriesThe materials for this attempt have been both sedu lously and carefully collected from authentic sources; and in describing machinery the use of technical terms has been avoided, as far as possible, in order to render it interesting to every class of readers. From the mag nitude and importance of the Water Works of London, they necessarily occupy a considerable portion of the work; but in recounting the schemes proposed at various periods, such only have been selected as seemed to be deserving of notice, either for their novelty or utility.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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