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Appendix–II. — Works of Reference

Author.Title.Date.
Baker, Benj.The Actual Lateral Pressure of Earthwork1881
Baker, Ira O.Treatise on Masonry Construction1899
Bell, Thos. J.History of the Water Supply of the World1882
Beloe, Chas. H.Beloe on Reservoirs1872
Bowie, Aug. J., Jr.A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining1898
Brant, Wm. J.Scientific Examination of Soils1892
Brightmore, A. M.The Principles of Water-Works Engineering1893
Buckley, Robt. B.Irrigation Works in India and Egypt1893
Cain, Wm.Retaining Walls1888
Chittenden, H. M.Report and Examination of Reservoir Sites
in Wyoming and Colorado1898
Courtney, C. F.Masonry Dams1897
Fanning, J. T.Water-Supply Engineering1889
Flynn, P. J.Irrigation Canals and Other Irrigation Works1892
Frizell, Jos. P.Water Power1891
Gordon, H. A.Mining and Mining Engineering1894
Gould, E. S.The Elements of Water-Supply Engineering1899
Hall, Wm. Ham.Irrigation in California1888
Hazen, AllenThe Filtration of Public Water Supplies1895
Howe, M. A.Retaining Walls for Earth1891
Hughes, Saml.Treatise on Water-Works1856
Jackson, L. D. A.Statistics of Hydraulic Works1885
Kirkwood, J. P.Filtration of River Waters1869
Merriman, M.Treatise on Hydraulics, Masonry Dams
and Retaining Walls1892
Newell, F. H.Irrigation in the United States1902
Newman, JohnEarthwork Slips and Subsidences Upon
Public Works1890
Potter, ThomasConcrete1894
Schuyler, J. D.Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water Power
and Domestic Water Supply1901
Slagg, Chas.Water Engineering1888
Stearns, F. P.Metropolitan Water-Works Reports1897
Stockbridge, H. E.Rocks and Soils1888
Trautwine, J. C.Earthwork; and Engineer’s Pocket-Book1890
Turner, J. H. T.The Principles of Water-Works Engineering1893
Wilson, J. M.Manual of Irrigation Engineering1893

Annual Reports.

Massachusetts State Board of Health.

Geological Survey of New Jersey.

Metropolitan Water-Works, Boston and vicinity.

U. S. Geological Survey.

Transactions American Society of Civil Engineers.

Vols. 3, 15, 24, 32, 34 and 35.

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Vols. 59, 62, 65, 66, 71, 73, 74, 76, 80, 115 and 132.

Engineering News. Vols. 19 to 46.

Engineering Record. Vols. 23 to 46.

Journal of the Association Engineering Societies. Vol. 13.

Footnotes

1 The writer had intended to present a table of physical properties of different materials, giving their specific gravity, weight, coefficient of friction, angle of repose, percentage of imbibition, percentage of voids, etc., but found it impossible to harmonize the various classifications of materials given by different authorities.

2 The effective head at any point of an earth dam has been defined as the difference in the elevation of the high-water surface in the reservoir and that of the intersection of the down-stream slope with the natural or restored surface of the ground below the dam.

3 This work is very fully described in the Annual Reports of the Metropolitan Water Board of Boston; and by Mr. F. P. Stearns, Chief Engineer of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, in the Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers for April, 1902. The latter description was reprinted, with the omission of some of the illustrations, in Engineering News for May 8, 1902.

4 By effective size of sand grains is meant such size of grain that 10% by weight of the particles are smaller, and 90% larger than itself; or, to express it a little differently, the effective size is equal to a sphere the volume of which is greater than ¹/₁₀ that forming the weight and is less than ⁹/₁₀ that forming the weight.

5 The term “uniformity coefficient” is used to designate the ratio of the size of the grain which has 60% of the sample finer than itself to the size which has 10% finer than itself. The method of determining the size of sand grains and their uniformity coefficients, is fully explained in Appendix 3 of Mr. Hazen’s book on “The Filtration of Public Water Supplies.”

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