Project Gutenberg 2021-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 154 Tower, F. B. (Fayette Bartholomew) 1817 1857 Tower, Fayette Bartholomew 07009332 Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct $aUnited States :$bWiley and Putnam,$c1843. deaurider, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct" by F. B. Tower is a historical account written in the early 19th century. This work examines the construction and significance of the Croton Aqueduct, detailing the engineering innovations required to supply New York City with essential water resources. Tower, who worked in the Engineer Department, aims to document both the primary structure and the preliminary measures leading to its construction. The opening of the book introduces the significance of aqueducts in ensuring a city's health and growth, emphasizing their historical prevalence in ancient Rome and other civilizations. Tower recounts his experiences in the Engineer Department during the Croton Aqueduct's construction and explains the inspiration behind the book: the public interest in the aqueduct's engineering marvel. He outlines the benefits and necessity of the aqueduct for New York, articulating the existing water supply challenges faced by the city and foreshadowing the detailed explorations of ancient and modern aqueducts that will follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/illustrationsofc00towe 20210313102300tower 1843 US Reading ease score: 58.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.) TD Text Category: History - American Category: Engineering & Technology 341759 2025-06-26T09:36:09.297619 text/html 315304 2024-10-18T16:53:26 text/html 6002882 2025-06-26T09:36:17.496565 application/epub+zip 6002448 2025-06-26T09:36:11.646578 application/epub+zip 364831 2025-06-26T09:36:10.231559 application/epub+zip 7216192 2025-06-26T09:36:21.771546 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 7184484 2025-06-26T09:36:16.236512 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 428371 2022-09-29T22:39:02.306687 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291989 2025-06-26T09:36:08.427558 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 271979 2024-10-18T16:53:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16507 2025-06-26T09:36:21.929521 application/rdf+xml 14776 2025-06-26T09:36:10.432565 image/jpeg 2471 2025-06-26T09:36:10.334563 image/jpeg 6931938 2025-06-26T09:36:09.416545 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia