Excerpt from Notes on the Selection and Design of Public Works: Hydraulic and Power Plants, Electric Lighting and Pumping Installations, Water Works, Sewerage and Drainage It is important, when new works are to be installed, to know what has been done in similar cases elsewhere. It is hoped that the following notes, data and illustrations from the writer's practice, will be of interest and value in this connection. The writer will be glad to furnish further information concern ing the works in question or to design and superintend the con struction of similar works. New plants will be designed and installed, and old plants remodeled on an economical and mod ern basis. Attention will also be given to the testing of water, light and power plants, and to the examination and reports on their condition and value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.