Small water supplies : being a practical treatise on the methods of collecting, storing and conveying water for domestic use in large country mansions, estates and small villages and farms, for the use of engineers, estate agents, and owners of country property / by F. Noel Taylor.

  • Taylor, F. Noel.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Small water supplies : being a practical treatise on the methods of collecting, storing and conveying water for domestic use in large country mansions, estates and small villages and farms, for the use of engineers, estate agents, and owners of country property / by F. Noel Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    cavation thus proceeds inside the curb which will be supported by the props as shown and the process orocfress. repeated. The props are inclined and spiked to the upper curb and rest on sole plates. Great care must be taken when the brickwork rises to the underside of the second curb in order to fill up the space very fully between the two sections with cement. It will very often occur when the bricks are laid as in fig. 8 that the earth will swell and bind them together, in which case the curb would be dispensed with, and bricks being added under the executed steining. For a 9 in. lining, laid as headers and stretchers as shown by fig. 10, the curb system is the best. In passing it may be said that