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Excerpt from Hydraulic Engineering: A Treatise on the Properties, Power and Resources of Water for All Purposes
The student desiring an easily comprehended statement of the mathematical theory of the motion of fluids proceeding to the con sideration of the motion of water in pipes and canals, and finally to the practical application of fluid pressures in combination with suit able trains of mechanism adapted to any given problem, will doubtless find this book useful as a preliminary guide to a complete understand ing of all the practical questions involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
