Principles and Practice of Plumbing (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cosgrove, John Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330872681 ISBN 13: 9781330872680

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Principles and Practice of Plumbing

In preparing the manuscript for this book, the author's sole object was to systematize and reduce to an exact basis, the principles which underlie the practice of plumbing. The necessity for accurate rules and formulas, instead of the empirical methods formerly employed, was often and forcibly brought home to the author when designing plumbing installations for large buildings. The scarcity of scientific information on this important branch of sanitation was quite marked. No book had ever been published that indicated the best kind of material to use for a given purpose, that told how work should be designed and installed to be perfectly sanitary, and that showed how to pro portion the various parts with relation to the whole, so that a plumbing system designed and installed according to the text would give perfect service. Rules and formulas for proportioning hot and cold water supply pipes were entirely lacking and no literature was available that would be of assist ance in determining this most important feature of a building. Neither could anything be had that would indicate the size of piping required to supply a given number of flushing valves for closets, nor that mentioned the numerous other conditions requiring consid'ération when designing a plumbing installation. Realizing this, the author gathered much valuable data and worked out many rules and formulas from his private practice, and the gist of the rules.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330872681
• ISBN 13: 9781330872680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 401