Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed

by Ernest Spon

EN·~6 hours·13 chapters

Chapters

13 total

SINKING AND BORING WELLS.

0:53

PREFACE.

5:10

CHAPTER I. GEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.

1:00:30

CHAPTER II. THE NEW RED SANDSTONE.

8:46

CHAPTER III. WELL SINKING.

35:15

CHAPTER IV. WELL BORING.

33:33

CHAPTER V. AMERICAN TUBE WELL.

7:35

CHAPTER VI. WELL BORING AT GREAT DEPTHS.

1:41:51

CHAPTER VII. EXAMPLES OF WELLS EXECUTED, AND OF DISTRICTS SUPPLIED BY WELLS. - Permian Strata.

56:31

CHAPTER VIII. TABLES AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

13:43

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Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed

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~6 hours (356K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2014-05-20

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45703

Subjects

Water-supply Wells Boring TD

About the author

Ernest Spon

A Victorian engineer and technical writer, he turned practical industrial know-how into books that stayed useful long after his short life ended. His work on wells, workshops, and engineering reference books reflects a hands-on mind shaped by real building and design work.

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