The Metropolitan Main-drainage works: machinery for lifting the sewage, 1864. Diagram of '...the outfall of the southern system at Crossness, two miles below [The buildings contain] the engines, boilers, and other machinery connected with the great pumping establishment. The considerable architectural pretensions, the details of the parts that come close to the eye, such as the entrance doorways on the river side, and other portions, having finely-wrought mouldings and other , and in it engines of 500-horse power have been erected, for the purpose of lif
The Metropolitan Main-drainage works: machinery for lifting the sewage, 1864. Diagram of '...the outfall of the southern system at Crossness, two miles below [The buildings contain] the engines, boilers, and other machinery connected with the great pumping establishment. The considerable architectural pretensions, the details of the parts that come close to the eye, such as the entrance doorways on the river side, and other portions, having finely-wrought mouldings and other , and in it engines of 500-horse power have been erected, for the purpose of lifting the sewage of the low-lying grounds on that side of the are estimated to yield a discharge of sewage amounting to 10,400 cubic feet per minute. To raise this quantity to a height of 19 ft. into the outfall sewer, four engines, each of 125 nominal horse-power, have been provided with 48-in. cylinders and 9-ft. sheds have also been erected here for the storage of coal, and the creek has been much improved by the formation of a very fine wharf-wall, with a barge-bed in front of it'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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