ResearchGuides: Water: Access, Supply, and Sustainability: History of Science Collection

Properties and History

Dissertation sur la glace : ou Explication physique de la formation de la glace, & de ses divers phénomènes
Call Number: GB2403 .M34 1749
Translation: Dissertation on ice: or Physical explanation of the formation of ice, & its various phenomena
Physical and chemical essays
Call Number: QD27 .B5 1788 ESL
2 vols.
A treatise on the natural and chymical properties of water, and on various British mineral waters
Call Number: QD142 .B66 1830 ESL
Histoire physique de la mer. Ouvrage enrichi de figures dessinées d'après le naturel
Call Number: QH91 .M325 1725
Translation: Physical history of the sea. Book enriched with figures drawn from the natural
Water : its composition, collection and distribution : a practical handbook for domestic and general use
Call Number: TD345 .P37 1881
Water purification hygenically considered
Call Number: TD430 .C87 1897 ESL
Reprinted from The Medical news, Nov. 1897

Infrastructure and Engineering

Report on the subject of introducing pure water into the city of Boston
Call Number: TD225.B7 B18 1834 ESL
Documents relating to the subject of supplying the city with water
Call Number: TD225.N7 D63 1826 ESL
2 vols.
View of the practicability and means of supplying the city of Philadelphia with wholesome water
Call Number: TD225.P53 L3 1799
Hydraulia, an historical and descriptive account of the water works of London : and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries
Call Number: TD264.L8 M4 1835 ESL
Later published as An historical and scientific description of the mode of supplying London with water (1841)
Sexti Iulii Frontini De aquae ductibus urbis Romae commentarius
Call Number: TD398 .F765 1792
Translation: On the sixth of July Dederichius water channels of the city of Rome diary
Report on the supply of water to the metropolis
Call Number: TD403 .G743 1850 ESL
5 vols. in 2; with appendices
Report on the filtration of river waters, for the supply of cities, as practised in Europe, made to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of St. Louis
Call Number: TD441 .K6 1869 quarto
"The first American publication that addresses water filtration for public water supplies in a systematic fashion, after Charles Storrow's work."

Sir Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) was the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, and responsible for the construction of a new sewer system. This included pumping stations, outfall sewers, embankments and eventually, treatment facilities.

The system was opened by the Prince of Wales (Edward VII) in 1865, but not completed until 1875.

(photo: National Portrait Gallery, London)

A short descriptive account of the Thames embankment and of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station by Bazalgette, Joseph William, Sir
Call Number: TD257 .M48 1868 ESL
Metropolitan main drainage
Call Number: TD557 .H39 1858 ESL
..."Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 13 July 1858; for copy "of Report presented to the Metropolitan Board of Works by Messrs. Hawksley, Bidder, and Bazalgette, 1858."
Reports of Mr. Isaac Shone, C.E. and M.E., F.G.S., on the drainage of Southport, with a proposal for dealing with the sewage of the "Albert Road" District
Call Number: TD741 .S64 1883 ESL
..." illustrations of the pneumatic sewage ejector, and extracts from evidence given by Sir F. W. Bazalgette, C.E. and Mr. Joseph Brierley, C.E...."