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King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The water in part escaped through the aqueduct passing over the gates, and discharging
itself, at a waste weir, near Mill River, a distance of nearly 15 miles, without any injury
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…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
"The current of water which passes through all the division
of Cuntisuyu I have seen in the province of Quechua, which
is part of that division, and censidered it an extraordinary
work, and indeed surpassing the description and report
which…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
The fertile
fields were torn up and covered with masses of stone and
gravel, and the flood left marks of its fury far up on the
hill sides.
At the commencement of the rain which caused this flood,
the ground…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…An aqueduct under the river connects the reservoirs. In 1829, desiring to increase their supply of water, the company obtained an act of
Parliament, granting them authority to draw water from Lea Bridge Mills, and to add
120,000 to…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…1,460,000 francs, altogether a little
more than $300,000.*
For its bold and lofty arcades, the solidity of its masonry, and the imposing grandeur
of the whole structure as it bestrides the beautiful valley of Alcantara, the aqueduct…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Mountain streams, which generally issue from siliceous rocks, and
run over stony or pebbly beds, are, for the most part, comparatively pure and
soft.. The river water of New-England, and the other hilly portions of the United
States,, is…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
This is analogous to lake water, except that it is altogether
stagnant and is more loaded with putrescent matter. The sulphates in sea and
other waters are decomposed by putrefying vegetable matter, with the evolution
of sulphuretted hydrogen ; hence the…
Harper's New Monthly Magazine / Wikimedia Commons
…Addison Richards' article 'The Croton Aqueduct' in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1860. The dam created a 400-acre lake that was the sole water supply for New York City.
Date: December 1860
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Type…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The quantity of water furnished by this aqueduct is estimated at about 94,184 cubic
metres in twenty-four hours.
Thus, from the three modern aqueducts not less than 180,500 cubic metres of water
are daily introduced into Rome…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The difference in the cost of carrying an aqueduct over the river, on a bridge
of 163 feet in height, on seven immense stone piers, sunk in the water and mud, on an
average of 25 feet below tide, with…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
It is almost incompressible, a pressure equal to 2000 atmospheres
occasioning a diminution of only one-ninth of its bulk; or, when submitted to a
compressing force equal to 30,000 lbs. on the square inch, 14 volumes of this…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
The cost of
the aqueduct was $8,575,000, including purchases of
land and extinguishment of riparian rights. This
figure was within five per cent, of the estimates of
Chief Engineer Jervis. To it, however, must be
added $1,800…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…low swamp into Mill
brook, to follow the north bank for three miles, and then to cross in an aqueduct to its opposite side, and continue that level to the Harlem river. He states the distance to be from
the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…From this feeble and economical beginning, sprang our noble Croton Aqueduct ;
for theimmense and immediate advantages in cases of fire derived from this reservoir,
impressed more vividly upon the public mind the far greater advantages that would result
from having…
NYPL / F.B. Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
…Tower, Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct
License: Public domain
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The public castella which received the water of the aqueduct, were such as have
already been described, and from them distribution was made 1st., to the Praetorian:
camps 2d., to the fountains, and pools in the city 3d., the Munera…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
They also renew a request, previously made, that the Corporation would take immediate measures for opening and establishing the grade of the avenues and streets through
which the line of the aqueduct passed, and also those by which the receiving…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Whenever the temperature becomes lower than
the constituent temperature, requisite for the maintenance of the vapory state, some
of the vapor, or invisible steam, will be condensed, and become water. This
may be seen illustrated in the condensation of the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
D. Coggeshall. No 421
Pearl-street in this city, and found the water evidently affected by the lead. He
has also obtained similar results in several other instances. If the precaution be used,
of not employing the water first drawn…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Alcott, who lives entirely on succulent vegetables, states that
he has drunk no fluids for more than a year past, and that he never experiences
the sensation of thirst --a similar case is mentioned by Sauvages, of an individual who…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…to the city ofNew York in an aqueduct, declining 15 inches in a mile, and delivered in a
reservoir on Murray's Hill, 114 feet above high water line, which is near 7 feet 10 inches
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
On the other side of the banner the Queen of Cities, represented by a female wearing a crown, is calling attention to a
picture, a view of the dam on the Croton
River
the origin of the aqueduct. On the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
Health, however, is no less promoted by the internal, than by the external use of
water ; and it is to be hoped, that but a short period will elapse, before free baths
will be provided at the public expense, for…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…The distance from the source to the Castle
Hill reservoir, in a direct line, is six miles and a quarter, but, by the line of the aqueduct,
eight and a half miles. The water is conducted the whole distance through…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
The aqueduct of Lisbon has been long admired for the excellence of its construction,
and, in point of magnitude, is not inferior to any similar edifice which the ancients have
left us. That part of it situated in the valley…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…500 for a
survey and profile of the route, and for an estimate of the cost of constructing an
aqueduct. This was carried. Next year, a new set of schemes seems to have been started, one was to bring the…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
One object
of this arrangement is to obtain the greatest breadth with a
given quantity of material ; another is to afford an opportunity to examine the work so as to guard against leakage
and another, to prevent any moisture finding…
Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
According to Liebig, it is the atmospheric ammonia
which furnishes the nitrogen of plants. The traces of nitric acid which have been
detected in the air, are referable to the oxidation of the constituents of ammonia ;
and not to the…
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/06/20/new-croton-dam-1978/
…The collection comprises "a large number of photographs and plans documenting the original Croton Dam, the New Croton Dam and the entire aqueduct system."
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/06/20/new-croton-dam-1978/
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