Practical Treatise on Water-Supply Engineering: Relating to the Hydrology, Hydrodynamics, and Practical Construction of Water-Works, in North America, ... Tables and Illustrations (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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A numerous band of engineering students are graduated each year and enter the field, many of whom choose the specialty of hydraulics, and soon discover that their chosen science is great among the most noble of the sciences, and that its mastery, in theory and practice, is a work of many years of studious acquire ment and labor. They discover also that the accessible literature of their profession, in the English language, is intended for the class-room rather than the field, and that its formulae are based chiefly upon very limited philosophical experiments of a century and more ago but partially applicable to the extended range of modern practice.

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