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…According to Christopher Tompkins, author of The Croton Dams and Aqueduct, this image is "especially noteworthy for its accuracy in depicting the excavation."
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2012/12/30/new-croton-dam-construction-1896/
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Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
…This area would become the route of the Croton Aqueduct sixty years later.
Date: 1776
Location: Westchester County, NY
Source: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
License: Public domain
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Many
of them consisted of two conduits, a short distance apart
the larger of these was for general use ; the other and
smaller, to supply the inhabitants and water the fields, while
the first was cleansing ; a circumstance in which…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
In making the plan for a dam at this place it was determined to fill the main channel and the table land on the
right bank with an embankment of earth ; and on the left
bank where rock was found…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Water, therefore, which
is transparent, colorless, inodorous, and tasteless, is called good and pure, and
none other can be called such ; though some medical writers are of opinion,
that it is not necessary it should be in this pure state…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
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The average quantity of saline matter in sea-water is 3| per cent., and its specific
gravity about 1.0274. The composition of sea-water differs also in different localities. Iodine has been found…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
This may arise from the absorption
of the fluid parts of the saliva ; for it appears to be necessary for the due performance of the functions of the palate and the tongue, that the mucus should possess a
certain degree…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Canvas White,
Esq., was appointed Engineer to this Company, and in his
report to the Directors, he recommended taking the waters
of the Bronx at Underbill's bridge ; estimated that 9,100,000
gallons of water could be delivered in…
Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons
The Great Receiving Reservoir, Yorkville (1842)
Hand-colored lithograph of the Croton Aqueduct's receiving reservoir at Yorkville (now the site of Central Park's Great Lawn). This was where Croton water first arrived in Manhattan after its 41-mile…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
This Reservoir is 420 feet square on the top, measuring
on the cornice of the main wall ; it is 425 feet square at the
top of the cornice of the pilasters, and 436 feet square at the
base, measuring from…
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.
…Moreover, the original calculations of the total
probable cost of the aqueduct from the Croton had by this time
been found to be ridiculously small, and it began to be realized that
the ultimate aggregate would approximate or exceed $10…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
'
The pilgrim oft,
At dead of night, 'mid his oraison hears
Aghast the voice of Time, disparting towers,
Tumbling all precipitate, down-dashed,
Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon ;
While murmurs sooth each awful interval
Of ever-falling waters…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Hence we never can have ice formed at the bottom of deep water,
though it is not uncommon to find it thus situated, in shallow streams or rivers of
rapid flow. Here the temperature of the whole body of water…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The general results of Dr. Christison's investigations, appear to be, that neutral salts in various, and for the most part minute ,
proportions, retard or prevent the corrosive action of water on lead --allowing the
carbonate to deposite itself slowly…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…CROTON AQUEDUCT. 259
That the city has enjoyed the blessings of peace and prosperity, during the execution of
this noble enterprise, though not unmingled with severe privations, is cause of devout
gratitude to our Heavenly Benefactor.
May this virtue flow…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
present and future wants of the city cannot be obtained. This Committee drafted an Act for the Legislature to
pass, which was approved by the Common Council, and
presented to the Legislature in the session of 1832, but
failed in…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
On the south side of the Reservoir a pipe of 3 feet diameter leaves each division and they are arranged with branches so as to draw from one or both divisions. The house
standing across the division wall is directly…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
But though water is thus generally diffused over the surface of the globe, yet
it is not found perfectly pure in any place ; even the rain and the snow that descend from the clouds, the condensation, as it were, of…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
But though water expands by heat and contracts by
cold, there is even a limit to this law, for had there not been, the lower parts of
water would have frozen first, and thus entire lakes, rivers and oceans, perhaps…
illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt
…is a view taken above the dam showing the position of the entrance to the tunnel which leads from the Reservoir to the gate chamber at the head of the Aqueduct. The entablature which is seen on the left against…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The completion of the Croton Aqueduct, and the supplying of a great city with pure and wholesome water, would
have illustrated any age of any
Their achievement is a fit subject of the high congratulation and just pride of
country…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The cost of constructing this splendid and useful fountain
was great but it ranks among the most interesting objects
;
conspicuously embellishing the city of Rome."
" The Piazza Novana has a very noble fountain standing
in its centre. It is composed…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
being also formed of an open shell, from which three bees
throw out the water."
" In the vicinity of the Temple of Vesta stands a handsome fountain, having a capacious basin, in which some
Tritons support a large marble shell…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
" Within a few years," says the Report, " it has become common in
Boston, and the vicinity, to bore for water, and to make what are called Artesian
wells. But no certain or valuable result has grown out of these endeavors…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
* It is now well ascertained, that carbonate of lime has only a slight action on soap, and cannot in the
proportions in which it exists in potable waters decompose it, by giving rise to the formation of a clotty
precipitate…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
in the sinks and gutters, and the consequent purity of the atmosphere, --the diminution of danger from fires, and the consequent reduction of rates of insurance, with
other important advantages too numerous to detail, we shall not consider its introduction…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
In a trial
at Nottingham, England, in 1836, it was proved that dysentery of an aggravated
form, was caused in cattle by the use of water contaminated with putrescent vegetable matter, produced by the refuse of a starch manufactory. The…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
lower part of the city, has always been, more or less, brackish, owing to the percolation of the salt water from the north and east rivers through the loose sandy soil,
thus giving them a distinct saline impregnation. The amount…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The completion of the Croton Aqueduct, and the supplying of a great city with pure and wholesome water, would
have illustrated any age of any
Their achievement is a fit subject of the high congratulation and just pride of
country…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
* Where water contains a large quantity of carbonic acid, there are some facts which appear to prove,
that it may act on lead, to an injurious extent, though there may be present a large amount of
neutral salts.
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