Excerpt from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 14: January to December, 1885 Description of some Experiments made on the Providence, R. I Water-works, to ascertain the force of Water Ram in Pipes. Read November 19, 1884.-edmund B. Weston. (july.) Report of the Committee on the Preservation of Timber. Presented and Accepted at the Annual Convention, June 25, 1885. Appendices to the Report of the Committee on the Preservation of Timber. 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.