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RECORD NUMBER: 1728 OF 1952Main Title | The quest for pure water; the history of water purification from the earliest records to the twentieth century / | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Author | Baker, M. N. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher | American Water Works Assn., | |||||||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 1948 | |||||||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 01348667 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Water--Purification ; Water-supply engineering--History ; Water Supply--history ; Filtration--history | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Collation | xiv, 527 pages illustrations, portraits 24 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-510) and index, |
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Contents Notes | I. From the earliest records through the sixteenth century -- II. Seventeenth century -- III. Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- IV. Four centuries of filtration in France -- V. British contributions to filtration -- VI. Slow sand filtration in the United States and Canada -- VII. Inception and widespread adoption of rapid filtration in America -- VIII. Upward filtration in Europe and America -- IX. Multiple filtration: Seventeenth to twentieth centuries -- X. Drifting-sand rapid filters -- XI. Plain sedimentation -- XIII. Coagulation: ancient and modern -- XIV. Disinfection -- XV. Distillation -- XVI. Aeration in theory and practice -- XVII. Algae troubles and their conquest -- XVIII. Softening -- XIX. Cause and removal of color -- XX. Iron and manganese removal -- XXI. Taste and odor control -- XXII. Medication by means of the water supply. -- Epilogue. |