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Excerpt from Water Hammer in Hydraulic Pipe Lines: Being a Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Rise or Fall in Pressure in a Pipe Line, Caused by the Gradual or Sudden Closing or Opening of a Valve; With a Chapter on the Speed Regulation of Hydraulic Turbines The experimental portion of the work was done in the Engineering Laboratories of the Manchester University, and the thanks of the author are due to the University authorities for their ready acquiescence in this publication of the work, and to Mr. J. Hall of the Engineering Stafl' for much help in the preparation of the. Apparatus and in carrying out the experiments. 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.