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16 - The Liverpool water supply scheme on which he was then engaged was a somewhat obscure story . The Corporation had apparently leased their Parliamentary powers to supply water to a Joint Stock Company , ' The Proprietors of the ...
16 - The Liverpool water supply scheme on which he was then engaged was a somewhat obscure story . The Corporation had apparently leased their Parliamentary powers to supply water to a Joint Stock Company , ' The Proprietors of the ...
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Yet another of Telford's interests in Glasgow at that time was the question of water supply . In these days Glasgow is considered to have arrived as near to the ideal of a pure water supply as a large city can hope to reach .
Yet another of Telford's interests in Glasgow at that time was the question of water supply . In these days Glasgow is considered to have arrived as near to the ideal of a pure water supply as a large city can hope to reach .
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Thus he became immersed in the problems of the water supply and sewering of London . Many years before , Telford's London Bridge scheme had led him to investigate means for dealing with the old London Bridge Water Works .
Thus he became immersed in the problems of the water supply and sewering of London . Many years before , Telford's London Bridge scheme had led him to investigate means for dealing with the old London Bridge Water Works .
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| Title | The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
| Author | Sir Alexander Gibb |
| Publisher | A. Maclehose & Company, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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