Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells: With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells ExecutedSpon, Ernest
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Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells: With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed
Spon, Ernest
Boring; Water-supply; Wells
---- ---- causes of failure, 2-4
---- boring, 60-80
---- sinking, 40
Well-water, storing, 206
Wealden clay, 5
Wedging cribs, 94, 95
Weight of water in wells, 204
Westbourne Grove, well at, 200
West Drayton, wells at, 200
West Ham, wells at, 102
West India Dock, well at, 201
Westminster, wells at, 201
Wet stone, shot-holes in, 50
Whitechapel, wells at, 201
Willesden, well at, 201
Wimbledon, wells at, 201
Windsor station well, 160
Windsor, wells at, 201
---- wells at Old, 197
Winchfield, well at, 189
Windlass, 42, 60, 72
Winkfield Plain, well at, 201
Witham, well at, 201
Withdrawing tools, 64
Withdrawing tubes, 74-79
Wolverhampton, wells at, 166
Wooden drum curb, 41, 42
---- rods, 89, 101, 106
Wood tubbing, 95
Woodley Lodge, well at, 201
Woolwich beds, 5
---- wells at, 201
Worm-auger, 64
Wormley, wells at, 201
Wormwood Scrubbs, well at, 201
Wrought-iron tubes, 66
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