Water for Gotham : a history /

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This text examines New York City's struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, it shows how the project developed up to 1842 when the Croton Aqueduct was secured.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Water-supply > New York (State) > New York > History.
Water-supply engineering > New York (State) > New York > History.
Water Supply > history
Sanitary Engineering > history
Eau > Approvisionnement > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Technique > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Water-supply
Water-supply engineering
Watervoorziening.
Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.) > History.
Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (State) > Croton Aqueduct
New York (State) > New York
Above Par.
Abutment.
Alley.
Appraiser.
Atlantic Ocean.
Banana.
Biogeography.
Biography.
Biologist.
Bourgeoisie.
Brine pool.
Business class.
Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Cast iron pipe.
Catskill Mountains.
Chairman.
Charles Darwin.
Chief engineer.
Cholera.
Christopher Colles.
Coenties Slip.
Coffeehouse.
Commissioner.
Constitutionality.
Croton Aqueduct.
Croton River.
Culvert.
Customer.
Deep sea.
Designer.
Drinking water.
Dutch West India Company.
East Pacific Rise.
Edmund Andros.
Elizabeth Gaskell.
Engineering.
Erie Canal.
Everyman's Library.
Evolution.
Fauna.
Fresh water.
Gastropoda.
Groundwater.
Guaymas.
Harlem River.
Household.
Hudson River.
Hydrocarbon.
Hydrothermal vent.
Indication (medicine)
Industrialisation.
John Barker Church.
Labor unrest.
Laborer.
Latin America.
Lava.
Legislature.
Logging.
Lydia Maria Child.
Maritime nation.
Martin Van Buren.
Masonry.
Michael Joseph (publisher)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Misconduct.
Mussel.
New York Harbor.
Nuisance.
Oil spill.
Park Theatre (London)
Parliamentary sovereignty.
Passenger pigeon.
Patrick Carr.
Per capita.
Percentage.
Peter Stuyvesant.
Philip Hone.
Politics.
Polychaete.
Residence.
Rift valley.
Samuel Osgood.
Saw Mill River.
Seawater.
Sediment.
Sparkling wine.
Steam engine.
Steam locomotive.
Steamship.
Sulfide.
Tariff.
Tax.
Teapot.
The Bronx.
The Manhattan Company.
United States Senate.
Vegetable.
Water supply.
Whigs (British political party)
William L. Clements Library.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Give us cold water"
  • Manahata goes Dutch
  • English well-being
  • Tea water and the works that weren't
  • New city, old trouble
  • Aaron's water
  • Fools of Gotham
  • Catching the Croton bug
  • The work begins
  • Taking the high road?
  • Filling the "Big teapot"
  • New York's water from then to now.

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