The Croton Aqueduct - Harlem River Bridge, [New York], 1850. Aqueduct supplying the city of New York. 'At one soft water was carried from house to house in casks, and retailed to the inhabitants at their doors like aqueduct runs southerly, through the valley of the Hudson, to the edge of the Harlem River valley, consisting, through the whole distance of thirty-two miles, of one continuous underground water is conveyed by large iron pipes through the central parts of the city, and distributed to the streets, and thence to the is an unintermitt
The Croton Aqueduct - Harlem River Bridge, [New York], 1850. Aqueduct supplying the city of New York. 'At one soft water was carried from house to house in casks, and retailed to the inhabitants at their doors like aqueduct runs southerly, through the valley of the Hudson, to the edge of the Harlem River valley, consisting, through the whole distance of thirty-two miles, of one continuous underground water is conveyed by large iron pipes through the central parts of the city, and distributed to the streets, and thence to the is an unintermitting flow of water, yielding a superabundant supply to all the apartments of every floor; allowing without stint for the washing of the streets, and even of the fronts of the houses, during the heat of summer, and providing instantaneously for extinguishing fires'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
Size: 4960px × 2160px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: /, 19th, 19th-century, america, aqueduct, black, boat, bridge, bridges, britain, british, bw, central, century, civil, collector, croton, engineering, engraved, engraving, estuary, feature, geographical, geography, harlem, illustrated, iln, landscape, london, mouth, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, press, print, river, state, states, steam, steamer, structure, supply, technology, transport, transportation, united, unknown, victorian, water, white, york
