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Design from 1800-1925 (1) (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Design from 1800-1925 (1) (Click on thumbnails to enlarge image) |
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Notes on city sewer stoppers from Thomas Jefferson Papers
Series 9, Collected Manuscripts, 1783-1822. No exact date known.
Source: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. |
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Drawing and description of sewer stopper from Thomas Jefferson
Papers Series 1, General Correspondence. 1651-1827. No exact date known.
Source: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. |
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Intercepting arrangement of the Fourth Ave. main sewer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1893. Sewage and factory wastes were discharged into Milwaukee's streams and rivers in the 1870s, leading to disease and environmental degradation. This intercepting sewer was part of the plan implemented in the 1880s to correct the problem. The original designers (1880) were E. S. Chesbrough, Moses Lane and George E. Waring, Jr. The plan was expanded in the 1880s by the author, G. H. Benzenberg. Source: G. H. Benzenberg, "The Sewerage System of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee River Flushing Works," Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume XXX (December 1893), Plate I. Used with permission of ASCE and EWRI. |
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Sewerage pumping plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1893, showing the pump well, pump, engine, and discharge into the lake. See above for further information. Source: G. H. Benzenberg, "The Sewerage System of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee River Flushing Works," Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume XXX (December 1893), Plate II. Used with permission of ASCE and EWRI. |
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Milwaukee River flushing works pumping plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1893, showing the engine designed by Mr. Edwin Reynolds and built by the E. P. Allis Company. See above for further information. Source: G. H. Benzenberg, "The Sewerage System of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee River Flushing Works," Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Volume XXX (December 1893), Plate III. Used with permission of ASCE and EWRI. |
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Standard cross section of street in Berlin, Germany, 1896. "The Sewers and Sewage Farms of Berlin," Engineering News and American Railway Journal, Volume XXXVI, No. 9 (27 Aug. 1896), p. 140. |
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Proper and improper connections of laterals to the sewer
mains. Illustration circa 1887.
Source: Cyrenus Wheeler, Jr. (Mayor of Auburn, New York), “Sewers: Ancient and Modern; with an Appendix,” a paper read before the Cayuga County Historical Society on December 14, 1886. From the Collections of the Cayuga County Historical Society, 5 (1887). |
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Ventilation and stone sewer. This shows what can happen
if a sewer is not properly constructed -- sewer gas and leaking sewage.
Illustration circa 1887.
Source: Cyrenus Wheeler, Jr. (Mayor of Auburn, New York), “Sewers: Ancient and Modern; with an Appendix,” a paper read before the Cayuga County Historical Society on December 14, 1886. From the Collections of the Cayuga County Historical Society, 5 (1887). |
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Typical sewer and manhole sections from West Bluff sewer
system, Peoria, Illinois, 1897.
Source: Engineering News and American Railway Journal, Volume XXXVII, No. 4 (28 January 1897), insert between pp. 56-57. |
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Designs for automatic flush tanks, late 1800s - early 1900s.
Source: Harold E. Babbitt, Sewerage and Sewage Treatment, 6th edition (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1949), p. 113. |
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