Hydraulic Manual, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Hydraulic Manual, Vol. 1: Consisting of Working Tables and Explanatory Text, Intended as a Guide in Hydraulic Calculations and Field OperationsWards reduced and worked into the present form as most suitable for reference for engineering purposes. They are the lint general collee tion yet made. And include rainfall statistics of all India, and other meteorological statistics of use to the engineer. For the principal portion of them I um indebted to Mr. Blanford of Calcutta, Mr. Chambers of Bombay, and Dr. Murray Thompson of the Panjab those for the Madras. Presidency, excepting the older rainfall data, are unfortunately less complete. The remarks on the meteorology of India, drawn up by myself, are offered as a general account and explanation of the meteorological conditions of India as far as they are at present known.With regard to the alterations effected in this edition, they principally consist of replacing two or three of the former working tables by new ones, and adding such new tables as the modern system of Kutter absolutely requires: the appendix of miscellaneous tables and data, which are taken from various works and other sources, is slightly enlarged, the text is generally re-written or re-arranged, some additions being made to the article on modules, including a description of a new module of the author's. The hydraulic statistics, as well as the Indian meteorological statistics, have been increased by all such matter as has reference to data available only since the author's departure from India in 1872, the sole matter expunged being the description of the author's evaporameter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.