Excerpt from Tabulated Data With Explanatory Notes Relating to Flow of Water Under Pressure Through Clean Closed Pipes It may be of interest to note that Denver was the home of this class of pipe and that the entire water supply for that city is obtained through more than one hundred miles of continuous wood-stave pipe, varying in size from 30 inches to 48 inches in diameter. While engaged in the preparation of tables indicating the carrying capacities of continuous wood-stave pipe, the author was strongly impressed with the need Of special investigation touching this most important factor Of pipe design. 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.