 | Mechanical engineering - 1864 - 590 pages
...is thus known. From the upper pool the water passes into the main reservoir over similar cast iron gauge plates. The water is drawn from the reservoir...different heights, which admit of water being drawn off at various levels. The water passes down the stand-pipe and along a 48 inch pipe in the tunnel... | |
 | Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne, Ernest Spon, Francis N. Spon - Engineering - 1874 - 396 pages
...known. From the upper pool the water passes into the main reservoir over similar cast-iron gaugeplates. The water is drawn from the reservoir by pipes laid...different heights, which admit of water being drawn off at various levels. The water passes down the stand-pipe and along a 48-inch pipe in the tunnel... | |
 | Henry Law - 1881 - 768 pages
...50 feet high. Each embankment is made with a central puddle wall, and is pitched on the front slope. The water is drawn from the reservoir by pipes laid in a tunnel through the hill between the two embankments. At the inner end' a stand-pipe is arranged so that water... | |
 | Henry Law - Civil engineering - 1882 - 748 pages
...50 feet high. Each embankment is made with a central puddle wall, and is pitched on the front slope. The water is drawn from the reservoir by pipes laid in a tunnel through the hill between the two embankments. At the inner end a stand-pipe is arranged so that water... | |
 | Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland - Engineering - 1885 - 190 pages
...the usual way. Fig. 37, Plate IV., is a cross-section of the first-mentioned of these embankments. The water is drawn from the reservoir by pipes laid in a tunnel through the hill between the two embankments, there being no pipes through •the embankments themselves.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 964 pages
...feet high, each with a puddle wall in the centre, and pitching on the front slope in the usual way. The water is drawn from the reservoir by pipes laid in a tunnel through the hill between the two embankments, there being no pipes through the embankments themselves.... | |
 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) - Mechanical engineering - 1863 - 998 pages
...is thus known. From the upper pool the water passes into the main reservoir over similar cast iron gauge plates. The water is drawn from the reservoir...different heights, which admit of water being drawn off at various levels. The water passes down the stand-pipe and along a 48 inch pipe in the tunnel... | |
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From the upper pool the water passes into the main reservoir over similar cast iron gauge plates. The water is drawn from the reservoir by pipes laid in a tunnel cut through the rock in the solid, at the end of the main embankment, no pipes being laid... 