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Excerpt from Treatise on Hydraulics Many letters from foreign countries have urged the author to introduce the metric system of measures into the book. To meet this demand, the most important metric data, coefficients, formulas, and problems are given at the end of each chapter, and the student who follows these will have no occasion to transform English measures, but may learn to think in metric units and to use them without hesitation. The hydraulic tables have been gathered together at the end Of the volume, instead of being scattered throughout the text, and it is believed that this plan affords the advantage that a table can be more readily found. The most important tables are presented both in the English and in the metric system, the latter not being a mere transformation Of the former, but being arranged to be used with metric arguments. 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.