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American Society of Civil Engineers, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books Proceedings-of-the-American-Society-of-Civil-Engineers~~American-Society-of-Civil… More...

American Society of Civil Engineers, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books Proceedings-of-the-American-Society-of-Civil-Engineers~~American-Society-of-Civil-Engineers General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY (From December 2d, 1914, to January 2d, 1915) DONATIONS AMERICAN SEWERAGE PRACTICE: Volume I, Design of Sewers. By Leonard Metcalf and Harrison P. Eddy, Members, Am. Soc. C. E. Cloth, 9i x 6J in., illus., 10 + 747 pp. New York and London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1914. $5.00. This book, it is stated, is the first of three volumes to be issued by the authors, on the principles of theory and rules of practice in the design and operation of sewerage works. In this first volume, they have discussed the design of sewerage systems in detail, supplementing the subject-matter, much of which, it is stated, has been tested practically in their own work, with data, tables, and diagrams to illustrate standard practice. The second volume, it is said, is to deal with the Construction of Sewers and the third with the Disposal of Sewage. The Chapter headings are: The Lessons Taught by Early Sewerage Works; The General Arrangement of Sewerage Systems; Flow of Water in Pipes and Channels; Velocities and Grades; Measurement of Flowing Water; Quantity of Sewage; Precipitation; Formulas for Estimating Storm-Water Flow; The Rational Method of Estimating Storm- Water Run-Off in Sewer Design; Gaging Storm-Water Flow in Sewers; Sewer Pipe; The Design of Masonry Sewers; Examples of Sewer Sections and the Loads on Sewers; The Analysis of Masonry Arches; Street Inlets, Catch-Basins, and Manholes; Junctions, Siphons, Bridges and Flushing Devices; Regulators, Overflows, Outlets, Tide Gates, and Ventilation; Sewage Pumping Stations; Index. THE PRESERVATION OF STRUCTURAL TIMBER. By Howard F. Weiss. Cloth, 9J x 6i in., illus., 18 + 312 pp. New York and London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1915. $3.00. In studying the problems arising dur...<