Engineering, Geology and the Water Supply to Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Expertise and Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-136
Author(s):  
José Manuel Brandão ◽  
Pedro Miguel Callapez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Engineering Geology

Engineering Geology of the Catskill Water Supply

1923 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-67
Author(s):  
Charles P. Berkey ◽  
James F. Sanborn
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Engineering Geology

Hydrogeology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Олег Серебряков ◽  
Oleg Serebryakov ◽  
Любовь Ушивцева ◽  
Lyubov Ushivtseva ◽  
Оксана Жигульская ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Geology ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Engineering Geology ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Supply Source ◽  
Underground Waters ◽  
Production Activity

The relevance of the present textbook is that it conforms to modern requirements of the training program of the last generation of discipline "Hydrogeology" and is intended to students of secondary professional education in the Hydrogeology direction, specialties of Science about Earth. The underground waters making one of earth covers - the hydrosphere of a subsoil, play an important role in transfer of various substances, in particular components of mineral deposits, in activity of people. The person uses underground waters as a water supply source (fresh waters), in the medical purposes (mineral and balneological waters), in production activity for power production and heating (hydrothermal waters), for extraction of rare and valuable components (industrial waters), in technological processes, for melioration, etc. The textbook accompanies development of knowledge of disciplines "The general hydrogeology", "Lithology", "Structural geology", "Minerals", "Hydrogeology and engineering geology" and to other Sciences about Earth.

The Time Revolutionaries of 1859

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Clive Gamble
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Freezing Time ◽  
Adam Bede ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Unlimited Time ◽  
Conflicting Interests

The three principals, their partners, families, and networks are introduced. The chapter uses Darwin’s explanation of natural selection in 1857: ‘We have almost unlimited time; no-one but a practical geologist can fully appreciate this.’ Evans, Lubbock, and Prestwich were all practical geologists but with conflicting interests in managing London’s water supply for health and business. The chapter explores their geological passion and how they came to investigate the question of great human antiquity—the crux of the time revolution. The idea of using stone tools as a proxy for remote human ancestors is examined and the challenges which faced them set out. The characters of the principals are mapped onto the ideals in Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help, where zeal and perseverance sum up the qualities of success in all walks of life. George Eliot’s observations in Adam Bede on the men of New Leisure provides another fit for the three time revolutionaries. The preoccupation of the mid-nineteenth century with time is also examined using three inventions, the railways and railway time, shrinking distance—and hence time—by telegraphy, and freezing time with photographs. Examples range across literature and engineering.

‘Disgusting to the imagination and destructive of health’? The metropolitan supply of water, 1820–52

Urban History ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID SUNDERLAND
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Adequate Amount ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Water Companies

The criticisms of the early nineteenth-century metropolitan water supply by contemporary interest groups have been largely accepted by present day historians. This article argues that these criticisms were undeserved. It is argued that the London water companies provided an adequate amount of water; charged reasonable prices, given their large capital investments; and that, although the quality of water may have been poor compared to modern standards, it was far purer than sometimes supposed.

Paradise for Whom? Conservatism and Progress in the Perception of Rio de Janeiro's Drinking-Water Supply, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-727
Author(s):  
JORUN POETTERING
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Drinking Water Supply ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article examines the ways in which the perception of Rio de Janeiro's drinking water contributed to shaping the city's hydric management in colonial and imperial times. Even though the general assessment of climate and vegetation changed from paradisiacal to noxious in the second half of the eighteenth century in accordance with Enlightenment ideas, this had no effect on the locals’ appreciation of the city's drinking water. The criteria for evaluating the quality and quantity of available water were based on works from classical antiquity and remained essentially unchanged from early colonial times to the end of the empire. Not even population growth and increasing susceptibility to epidemics in the nineteenth century induced the authorities to reform the water supply system, as they were confident that the city was provided with good and abundant water by virtue of its natural predisposition.

scholarly journals Um fenômeno urbano em São Luís, Estado do Maranhão: a Companhia Anil e o sistema de canalização do abastecimento d´água na urbe oitocentista (1855 a 1862) * An urban phenomenon in São Luís, State of Maranhão: the Anil Company and the plumbing system for water supply in the nineteenth century city (1855 a 1862)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio Pinheiro ◽  
Antônio Cordeiro Feitosa
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Plumbing System

O presente artigo analisa o problemático sistema de abastecimento de água em São Luís do Maranhão, entre 1855 a 1862, século XIX, quando implantada a Companhia Hidráulica do Anil. Verificam-se os conflitos gerados quando assinado o contrato e no processo de implantação e funcionamento da companhia de água encanada, versus o fornecimento de água pelo antigo sistema artesanal, controlado por ricos senhores. A análise estrutura-se a partir dos relatórios da companhia, das atas do Senado da Câmara e das matérias dos inúmeros jornais que circulavam na São Luís, oitocentista. Objetiva-se analisar a conjuntura que motivou a criação da Companhia Anil e sua importância no processo de modernização dos serviços públicos da cidade. Abordam-se de forma breve as questões relacionadas à modernização, urbanização e progresso na urbe do século dezenove. Nesse sentido, verifica-se a resistência de alguns atores sociais entronizados décadas no controle da água potável e os embates travados na esfera política e na impressa.

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