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Map showing proposed lines of aqueducts from the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers and Perkiomen Creek also available waterways of the Neshaminy, Tohickon, Mill and Perkiomen Creeks and of certain tributaries of the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers north of the Blue Mountains. 1885. Philadelphia Water Department, Surveys for a future water supply. Plate II.
Map

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[Delaware River, Lower Delaware Sub-Basin, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia City Municipal Water Works.] [report from Assistant Engineer, ca. 1915?] [content: Queen Lane Supply; Distribution & Roxborough Supply; Source, Pumping Station] [Page 8, also identified as Page 17] [Continuation of 2009.002.0065]
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Acts of assembly and ordinances of Councils relating to Fairmount Park, Hunting Park, Burlholme Park, Cobb's Creek Park, Morris Park, Pennypack Park, Wister's Woods and Fisher Park under the control of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Printed for the Commissioners, 1912
Book

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Common Pleas Equity. Albertson v. The City of Philadelphia et al. (Injunction - Right of the owner of land to the use of a stream of water flowing over it - Right of the city to use such stream for carrying off surface drainage - Effect of an ordinance of councils)
Report

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A manual of rules, tables, and data for mechanical engineers, based on the most recent investigations of constant use in calculations and estimates relating to strength of materials and of elementary constructions; labour; heat and its applications, steam and it properties, combustion and fuels, steam boilers, steam engines, hot-air engines, gas-engines; flow of air and of water; air machines; hydraulic machines; mill-gearing; friction and the resistance of machinery, &c; weights, measures, and monies, British and foreign, with the reciprocal equivalents for the conversion of British and French compound units of weight, pressure, time, space, and money; specific gravity and the weight of bodies; weight of metals, &c. with tables of logarithms, circles, squares, cubes, square-roots, and cube-roots; and many other useful mathematical tables. - Clark, Daniel Kinnear
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American Society of Civil Engineers: Paper No. 426, "Experiments relating to hydraulics of fire streams," by John R. Freeman; and, Paper No. 479, "The nozzle as a accurate water meter," by John R. Freeman. Reprint from Transactions, Vol. XXI, p. 303 (November, 1889), and Vol. XXIV, p. 492 (June, 1891), respectively - Freeman, John R.
Book

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Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Report of progress C5. Part 1. Field Notes in Delaware County, by C.E. Hall, with a colored geological map of the county, and thirty-nine photographic pictures of the granite quarries, the kaolin mines, the serpentine outcrops, and the castle rocks, published in advance of the Geological Report on Delaware County, part 2, by J. P. Lesley. - Hall, C. E.
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Plate XVI - Percentages of increase of population of several cities by decades with probable rates of future increase for the City of Philadelphia; Probable increase of population of Philadelphia; Per capita water consumption of various cities; Growth of various cities (data from U.S. Census) Commission on the Extension and Improvement of the Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia, Rudolph Hering, Joseph M. Wilson, Samuel M. Gray, 1899 - Hering, Rudolph; Wilson, Joseph M.; Gray, Samuel M. Commissioners
Chart

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Plate VIII - Typical aqueduct sections: section in earth excavation, section in rock excavation, tunnel in solid rock, section in embankment, tunnel section brick lined. Commission on the Extension and Improvement of the Water Supply of the City of Philadelphia, Rudolph Hering, Joseph M. Wilson, Samuel M. Gray, 1899 - Hering, Rudolph; Wilson, Joseph M.; Gray, Samuel M. Commissioners
Drawing, Technical

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Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in constructive and operative machinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary, commencing with a rudimentary description of the early known mechanical powers and detailing the various motions, appliances and inventions used in the mechanical arts to the present time - Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908
Book

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A Plan of the Townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk and the District of Southwark in the County of Philadelphia and in the State of Pennsylvania showing the intended New roads and Streets, as laid out by the Commissioners appointed by the General Assembly in the year 1787. - John Hills
Map

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Report to the Honorable J. Hampton Moore - Mayor of the City of Philadelphia on extensions and improvements of the present water works system immediately necessary, together with a plan for future development designed to meet the needs of Philadelphia for the next fifty years, September 15, 1920 - Ledoux, J. W.
Manuscript

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Report of the case of Alexander and others against the president, managers and company of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. Instituted to recover damages for the loss of the bridge at the Falls of Schuylkill, during the fresh of the 21st of February, 1822. Tried before the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, on the 18th day of February, 1824. Reported for the Watering Committee. By John C. Lowber. - Lowber, John C.
Report

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I. Purification of the Seine : Report of the commission appointed to propose measures for remedying the pollution of the Seine in the vicinity of Paris / II. Sanitary state of Berlin : A description of the works in course of execution for the sewerage of Berlin, and the application of the sewage to irrigation at Marienfelder and Falkenberg. Extracted from the 'Annales de Ponts et Chaussees' and translated from the French. - Manning, Robert M., translator
Pamphlet

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"Tales from the Wasteland: Philadelphia's sewer system has swallowed on Volkswagen, countless shopping carts and a billion dollars' worth of improvements. Now the city has to figure out how to sell a heap of fertilizer" in The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, February 19, 1989 - Maykuth, Andrew
Serial

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The illustrated history of the Centennial exhibition held in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence : with a full description of the great buildings and all the objects of interest exhibited in them : embracing also a concise history of the origin and success of the exhibition and biographies of the leading members of the centennial commission, to which is added a complete description of the city of Philadelphia - McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883
Book

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A book of the United States: exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government: and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states: together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present time. The Biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables - Mellen, Grenville, ed.
Digital Document

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The advantages of the separate system of drainage: with a description of the works designed and carried out by the author at the town of Halstead, Essex. The evils and disadvantages of the metropolitan system of combined drainage. The cause of flooding from the low-level sewer, and how it might be prevented. A proposed method of sewage disposal for the metropolis, so as to prevent the present nuisance from the sewage and the silting up of the Thames. - Monson, Edward
Pamphlet

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Studies of the efficiency of water purification processes: I. Results obtained from a preliminary study of the Cincinnati and Louisville municipal filtration plants. II. and III. Results obtained from a collective survey of seventeen municipal filtration plants - Prepared by direction of the Surgeon General
Report

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Development of transportation systems in the United States, comprising a comprehensive description of the leading features of advancement, from the colonial era to the present time, in water channels, roads, turnpikes, canals, railways, vessels, vehicles, cars and locomotives; the cost of transportation at various periods and places, by the different methods; the financial, engineering, mechanical, governmental and popular questions that have arisen; and notable incidents in railway history, construction and operation. - Ringwalt, J. L.
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