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Main Title The quest for pure water; the history of water purification from the earliest records to the twentieth century /
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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EHAM  TD430.B25 Region 1 Library/Boston,MA 01/01/1988
EMBM  TD430.B25 1948 NRMRL/GWERD Library/Ada,OK 05/13/1994
ERAM  TD430.B25 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 01/01/1988
Collation xiv, 527 pages illustrations, portraits 24 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-510) and index,
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.
Place Published New York,
PUB Date Free Form 1948.
BIB Level m
Document Type BC
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
LCCN 48010469
Merged OCLC records 977778691
OCLC Time Stamp 19940502155423
Language ENG
Origin OCLC
Type CAT
OCLC Rec Leader 00858cam 2200265I 45020