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Page 14
... pipes have any- where preceded the laying of sewers , it is but fair to say that the supply of pure water from the pipes , in some of the sections referred to , had become a necessity , and the people would have suffered , but in a ...
... pipes have any- where preceded the laying of sewers , it is but fair to say that the supply of pure water from the pipes , in some of the sections referred to , had become a necessity , and the people would have suffered , but in a ...
Page 58
... pipe which passes through them , and partly by steam - radiators . The method of foul - air escape , as devised by the architect and carried out by the building mechanics , is as follows : Each room has a wooden air - shaft , whose ...
... pipe which passes through them , and partly by steam - radiators . The method of foul - air escape , as devised by the architect and carried out by the building mechanics , is as follows : Each room has a wooden air - shaft , whose ...
Page 63
... pipes do not serve to warm a current of out - door air on its way through a flue to the apartment requiring it , as in the case of the Dudley School , next to be described . The fresh air enters as best it may ; the foul air is supposed ...
... pipes do not serve to warm a current of out - door air on its way through a flue to the apartment requiring it , as in the case of the Dudley School , next to be described . The fresh air enters as best it may ; the foul air is supposed ...
Page 66
... pipe at the bottom giving the needed air - current upward . As a matter of fact , however , the design was only ... pipes , on their way to the turret , traverse the warmed flue , and may thus acquire some increase of temperature ; but ...
... pipe at the bottom giving the needed air - current upward . As a matter of fact , however , the design was only ... pipes , on their way to the turret , traverse the warmed flue , and may thus acquire some increase of temperature ; but ...
Page 87
... pipe up through the roof , and when possible in direct contact with the chimney , its upper end being left open and protected by a rain - shield , a very effect- ual method is provided of affording an opening through which the sewer ...
... pipe up through the roof , and when possible in direct contact with the chimney , its upper end being left open and protected by a rain - shield , a very effect- ual method is provided of affording an opening through which the sewer ...
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