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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Estimate for a high bridge, maintaining a uniform inclination of aqueduct $935,745
The plan of carrying the water across Harlem River by an inverted syphon, is next
considered. It is proposed to erect a semi-circular arch, of 80…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…This aqueduct, like all our other public
works, was undertaken not only for the present but for the future. Its capacity is
graduated
not to supply the wants of the present population of the city, but to meet the
exigencies…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…It is not probable that either plan
can be executed as early as other parts of the aqueduct and it will be proper to lay
;
down a temporary pipe, which may be sufficient for the introduction of the water as…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Water Commissioners over the aqueduct to its termination at Murray's Hill. 3d. To
authorise the Commissioners, with the assent of the Common Council, to change the
plan of crossing the Harlem on a high bridge, to inverted syphons and…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…is a section of the Aqueduct in tunnel cutting
in rock.
The width of the tunnel excavation in rock is the same as
that of open excavation in rock ; and the manner of building the masonry to form the channel…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…McCullough,
Black & Co., early in the spring, under contract, to raise the same so high by the 1st of
November following, as to throw at least two feet of water into the tunnel of the aqueduct. This requirement of their…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…He proposed to take the waters of the Croton at Pine's
bridge, which he stated to be 183 feet above the level of the
Hudson ; to conduct the water in an open Aqueduct, following the line of the Croton…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…This was the only serious casualty
that occurred in connection with the building of the Oroton Aqueduct. It had been earnestly desired by the people of New York that the
water should be introduced into the city by the 4th…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
By direction of the Commissioners, who were anxious to place some of the work
under contract for the opening of the working season, shafts were sunk at the site of the
dam, and along the line of the Aqueduct as…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The work, on the whole, has been prosecuted, with the exception referred to, with
commendable perseverance and energy, and the dam can be made to throw into the aqueduct the water required, early in the ensuing^summer, and can be…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…aqueduct. -
The Croton reservoir, (which has received the name of Croton lake,) covers about
400 acres of land, find is available as a reservoir for 500,000,000 imperial gallons of water,
above the level that would allow the aqueduct…
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…Tower, Croton Aqueduct at Haarlem River (High Bridge), c.1842 Ink with watercolor wash on paper; 4 V2 x 9 V2 inches Mrs. Helen Tower Wilson William James Bennett (1789-1844), Fishermen at High Bridge, 1844 Watercolor on paper; 12V4X…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The aqueduct is built on a foundation of
is the
stone, and the water runs in earthen pipes, about 10 inches in diameter, which are
cased with two stones so as to fit them these are covered over with other…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The Pope having directed
new experiments and observations to be made, it was found that although the level of
the lake was about one and a half palms above the surface of the ancient reservoir which
fed the aqueduct, that…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Garcilasso, who was a Peruvian by the mother's side, and who wrote his Commentaries in 1560, records of Viracocha, the seventh Inca, that he constructed "an aqueduct, 12 feet in depth, and 120 leagues in length. The source of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…may be preserved for many miles over large ravines or plains, where an aqueduct would
be, from its expensiveness, manifestly out of the question. In the city of Constantinople,
the old ruinous aqueduct of Valens, which no longer conducts water…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Rhodes, however, has
altogether misconceived the construction of the aqueduct proposed by our report, for instead of its admitting any of these substances or impurities, it was to be impervious on
three sides to any external fluid or substance whatever…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…nency of any one individual arch may be considered to depend upon that of the whole structure.*
The Aqueduct of Spoleto, has been standing about eleven
hundred years and is still in a perfect state of preservation.
With proper care…
crotonfriendsofhistory.org
the New York Water Commissioners’ attention to the Croton River. The canal company failed but the metropolis gained access to Croton water with the completion of the Croton Dam and Aqueduct in 1842. Postcard of New York Central Railroad. Another
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…When it became certain, in 1831, that the water-supply problem
was to find its solution in a continuous aqueduct from the Croton --
such a continuous aqueduct being practicable in this case because
of the Croton's sufficiently lofty elevation…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…and of what had been done
;
since January, and finally adds the satisfactory statement that the whole line of aqueduct
had then recently been examined by the chief engineer, who reported very slight injury
from a very inclement winter.
Having…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…When it became certain, in 1831, that the water-supply problem
was to find its solution in a continuous aqueduct from the Croton --
such a continuous aqueduct being practicable in this case because
of the Croton's sufficiently lofty elevation…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…At Ariana, about four miles from Tunis, other remains of this aqueduct are visible. When mountains were tunnelled in its course, at every 60 yards, vertical openings were
driven through from the surface of the channel way to the upper…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Sinking Fund, 140, 74
Crane, Samuel, Water Project, 89
Sing Sing 117,42,3,5,58,73,82,217, 18
Creek, Morrisianna, 93, 10
Croton Aqueduct,. .106, 24, 37, 39, 41, 56, 97, 202, 4, Slave Labor, 202, 8
17…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
…it would be desirable to fill in the earth
again to the natural form, also where the line of Aqueduct
intersected villages, and using the open channel with slope
walls for the residue of the distance. In regard to iron…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Jervis, in a letter to the author of 22d April, " has been
thickness is too
deposited on the bottom and sides of the aqueduct, but as yet its depth or
small to be measured with much accuracy. As near as…
brickcollecting.com
…1835 New York City voted to construct a 40 mile brick-lined gravity-fed aqueduct from the Croton River into Manhattan. 1837 construction
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The length of this aqueduct was fifteen miles, 427 paces, of
which seven miles were carried above ground. Indeed, this stream and the Tepula may
be considered as belonging to the Marcian aqueduct, they with the Marcian
forming a
triple…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…Most of the particulars
of the
sivcly, however, on the old aqueduct anil ante- aqueduct
in our text arc digested from
cedent conditions) is the " Memoir, etc., of (he King's " Memoir."
Croton Aqueduct," compiled by Charles King
first
Mr…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
In opposition to this opinion of Delorme, another eminent architect, who examined
the aqueduct, thought that the receiving and emitting reservoirs had the same number of
pipes, and that the nine pipes which proceeded from the one to the other…