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Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Does not this water,
if we drink it, likewise corrode and injure the fine membranes of the stomach ? The
Boston people, who constantly use hard water for all purposes of cookery and
drink, certainly have bad complexions, sallow, dry, and…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Since then, we have made a calculation,
by which we are satisfied that in the single items of tea and coffee, it will save to
the inhabitants of this city annually, not far from 90,000 dollars. To this may…
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 stone, the
water runs in round earthen pipes about 10 inches diameter, which are cased with two
stones hewn so as to fit them, and they are covered over with rough stones…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
It is also remarked by Frontinus, that so
" admirable was the
equity of our ancestors,
that when on the line of an aqueduct, any owner of lands was unwilling to sell the portion required for the public work, the whole…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…this aqueduct, and the united streams led to the reservoir at
supplies were connected with
the Observatory in Paris, whence they were distributed to the fountains.
Two smaller aqueducts, that of the Pre St. Gervais, and that of Belleville, of…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…This aqueduct was finished in 1738. The great earthquake, which in 1755, destroyed thousands of lives, in Lisbon, numerous houses, palaces, and churches, and shook all
the peninsula, had no effect upon this noble structure, which continued to pour its…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…without any previous machinery but ;
I am now satisfied no such place exists, for although water in an open aqueduct will run
with tolerable fluency, having only six inches fall in the mile, yet in a pipe, or conduit,
it…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
From the considerations before detailed, I have however come to the conclusion, that under the modificationnow presented, it is better to adopt it, than the plan of
carrying the aqueduct by a tunnel under the river. Could I have the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…very tank, not from quart bottles," but from the Croton River, passing through the
whole line of the Croton Aqueduct !
The gentleman here referred to, was Samuel Stevens, Esq., the presiding officer of
the Board of Commissioners, whose name and…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…On the other side is the Queen of Cities, calling attention to a picture, representing the
Dam at the Croton River, the origin of the aqueduct. On the lower part of the border,
surrounding the picture, are emblazoned the arms…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Pontchartrain, Minister of State, to repair to Rochefort, to conduct spring water to the port from the fountains of the city,
which were supplied from a source, though quite insufficient
for the city, in the neighborhood. In his researches he…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
" The Peruvians and some of the neighboring nations
carried the cultivation of the soil to a higher stage of perfection than any of the American nations. In consequence
of the narrow extent of land intervening between the mountains and the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The different temperatures of its upper and
lower parts produce a current which draws the seas, and by means of the seas, the
air, towards the mean temperature. This circulation is also carried on between distant tracts of the ocean…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
From 1815
to 1836, it ranged from 30.08 to 22.05, (in 1836), but the mean duration of life for
the last 20 years is about 25 years ; and the ratio of mortality, according to population, about as 1…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The remarkable features of this aqueduct, are :
First. A large and beautiful compensation reservoir, formed by constructing a vast
mound, 450 feet in thickness, 120 feet high, and 300 in length, across a valley, in order
to collect and store…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…1835, gives a very intelligent view of their proceedings, and those of their engineers, and examines moreover, with acuteness, various, projects, that had been agitated in opposition to that of constructing an Aqueduct from
the Croton, we make copious extracts.
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…to obtain the water,
at a suitable level on the Croton river, as without this dam and reservoir, the aqueduct
would have required an extension of five miles to reach the proper level on the river ;
which is now attained…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The area of a cross-section of masonry in the aqueduct is :
Concrete masonry, - - 4.605 )
Stone in side walls, 21.572 V
Do. inspandrils, -
2.690^28.867,
Brick in arches and side facing, - -
13.658,
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
gineers, and made all necessary examinations so as to
determine, whether a sufficient quantity of pure and wholesome water could be obtained for present and future purposes, whether its introduction into the city would be
practicable at an elevation precluding…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Could we suppose that the Croton River will ever in any
season of drought, fail to furnish a supply greater than
would be carried off from this Reservoir and the Reservoirs
at the city by evaporation, we have still a…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
been located farther down, bringing the store of water more
nearly in the centre of the city.
Plate XXIV. is an isometrical view of the Distributing
Reservoir showing the front on the 5th Avenue and on
42nd street. The pipes…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
( Chiefly compiled from the works of Thomson, Pereira, Whewell and others.)
Water was regarded by the ancients as an elementary substance, and as a constituent of most other bodies. This opinion was somewhat modified by the experiments of Van Helmont…
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…Even before the dam collapse, Westchester residents and Croton businessmen recognized the competitive economic threat the Aqueduct represented. The 1837 "Memorial To the New York State Legislature" charged New York City with attempting to monopolize the trade and commerce of…
NYPL, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (F.B. Tower)
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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
expand, would back up and check the velocity of the approaching current without any
sensible revulsion upon the sides of the aqueduct : but in a close pipe, having such a depression as would be necessary in the present instance, say…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
muriates, carbonates, hydriodates, phosphates, nitrates, acetates, tartrates, arsenates, &c. These salts, however, do not possess an equally protective influence, the
carbonates and sulphates being most, the chlorides the least energetic of those saline
substances commonly met with in waters. As…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The length of this aqueduct, as far as discovered, is about six French leagues, or
15 miles, in a direction resembling a horse-shoe, and derives its water from the spring
of Eure, and Airau, near the village of Uzes…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…AN ACT
PRESCRIBING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CROTON AQUEDUCT SHALL PASS THE
HARLEM RIVER. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows :
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
For 440 years from the foundation of Rome the inhabitants contented themselves with the waters of the Tiber,
and of the wells and fountains in the city and its neighborhood. But at that period the number of houses and inhabitants…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The country bordering upon the Croton
is generally elevated and uneven, not sustaining a dense
population and cleared sufficiently to prevent injury to the
water from decayed vegetable matter. The river has a
rapid descent and flows over a bed…