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An Underground Guide to Sewers

Autor Stephen Halliday
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2019
A quirky and fact-packed guide to the feats of design and engineering at work in the ground beneath us.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780500252352
ISBN-10: 0500252351
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 494 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensiuni: 172 x 242 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.94 kg
Editura: Thames & Hudson

Notă biografică

Stephen Halliday is a specialist in industrial history and the author of a number of books, including Water: A Turbulent History, Amazing and Extraordinary London Underground Facts and The Great Stink: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis. He regularly lectures at Cambridge University and presented, with Michael Buerk, the TV programme 'What the Victorians Did for Us'.

Cuprins

Foreword by Sir Peter Bazalgette . Prelude: Cholera in the City . 1. Pioneers of Plumbing: I. Sanitation in the Ancient World; II. Sewage in the Streets . 2. Subterranean Infrastructures: I. The Cleansing of Paris; II. London & the Great Stink; III. Worldwide Adaptations; IV. Raising Streets . 3. Revolutions of Purity