Reservoirs

Examples

• These cranes, adapted for the lifting and carrying of enormous loads, were worked by hydraulic pressure obtained from elevated tanks or reservoirs, as above indicated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Artificial reservoirs are usually constructed on the near outskirts of a town in order that the frictional force lost in transmission may be reduced to a minimum. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In some cities where the water is very hard, as in Columbus, Ohio, it is softened and filtered at public expense, before it leaves the reservoirs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The crippling stones of the pavement, with their many little reservoirs of mud and water, had no footways, but broke off abruptly at the doors. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The English system consists more in the use of extended and successive reservoirs or beds of sand alone, or aided by the use of the sulphate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Does it bring it to its reservoirs in the most economic way possible, and is there any legitimate excuse for the scarcity of water which many communities face in dry seasons? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Municipal improvements were undertaken in Panama and Colon and the various settlements in the Canal Zone, such as the construction of reservoirs, pavements and a system of modern roads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Touched by such superfluity of simple confidence in a woman of her mature years, I opened the ample reservoirs of my nature and absorbed it all. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These are practically small steel reservoirs full of water and connecting with the city pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In just as careful a manner, the size and the strength of municipal reservoirs and pumps must be calculated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Bursting of Dams and Reservoirs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But as a substitute for such tanks or reservoirs he invented the _Accumulator_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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