Michigan Engineers' Annual Containing the Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society1916 |
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... improvements in construction have brought it up to a very high standard at the present time . Mr. Bateman : I would like to ask the speaker about the efficiency of mechanical soot cleaners . Mr. Fessenden : The best way to answer a ...
... improvements in construction have brought it up to a very high standard at the present time . Mr. Bateman : I would like to ask the speaker about the efficiency of mechanical soot cleaners . Mr. Fessenden : The best way to answer a ...
Page 32
... overwhelming benefits accruing from the reclamation and improvement of the land . The use of streams in the disposal of city sewage rests upon a much less satisfactory legal basis than do such cases 32 MICHIGAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY.
... overwhelming benefits accruing from the reclamation and improvement of the land . The use of streams in the disposal of city sewage rests upon a much less satisfactory legal basis than do such cases 32 MICHIGAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY.
Page 38
... improvements , there has grown up the feeling that , in case of interstate streams , local effort is of no avail . There being no medium of communication and agree- ment between states in such matters , a do - nothing policy has in most ...
... improvements , there has grown up the feeling that , in case of interstate streams , local effort is of no avail . There being no medium of communication and agree- ment between states in such matters , a do - nothing policy has in most ...
Page 52
... improvements . Having spent upwards of one million dollars for flood protection and with that project still in view ; having put some $ 430,000 into a filtration plant to purify its water supply , it will undoubtedly construct sewage ...
... improvements . Having spent upwards of one million dollars for flood protection and with that project still in view ; having put some $ 430,000 into a filtration plant to purify its water supply , it will undoubtedly construct sewage ...
Page 53
... improvement in the methods of settling and render- ing innacuous the suspended solids in sewage . Much could be said regarding the bacterial processes involved , the relative ad- vantages of this type of tank and the position which the ...
... improvement in the methods of settling and render- ing innacuous the suspended solids in sewage . Much could be said regarding the bacterial processes involved , the relative ad- vantages of this type of tank and the position which the ...
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Page 98 - One of the original members shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of...
Page 32 - It is further agreed that the waters herein defined as boundary waters and waters flowing across the boundary shall not be polluted on either side to the injury of health or property on the other.
Page 8 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat 289 Were shaped the anchors of thy hope...
Page 128 - All laws now in force in the territory of Wisconsin, which are not repugnant to this constitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitation, or be altered or repealed by the legislature.
Page 63 - The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this act shall have power to provide for the drainage of such district by laying out, establishing, constructing and maintaining one or more main channels, drains, ditches and outlets for carrying off and disposing of the drainage (including the sewage) of such district, together with such adjuncts and additions thereto as may be necessary or proper to cause such channels or outlets to accomplish the end for which they are designed in...
Page 31 - IV of the waterways treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain...
Page 59 - Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the board shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term of such membership, subject to the provisions of section three hereof.
Page 67 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 177 - Be it enacted by the Governor and Judges of the Territory of Michigan, That there shall be in the said' Territory a catholepistemiad or university denominated the Catholepistemiad or University Michigania.
Page 178 - The same being adopted from the laws of one of the original states, to wit, the state of New York, as far as necessary and suitable to the circumstances of the territory of Michigan.