Excerpt from Towers and Tanks for Water-Works: The Theory and Practice of Their Design Construction
It is a strange fact to chronicle that, amongst the great mass of scientific literature, there is no distinct treatise upon the design and construction of metallic receptacles or structures whose province it is to retain a sufficient reserve supply of water, elevated to a proper height and intended to be used in conjunction with other necessary features of a modem water-supply system. Such structures, generally termed "tanks," "water-towers," "standpipes," or "towers and tanks," according to their design, are rapidly increasing in number, and are being generally specified in the smaller water-plants, where the economies are to be practised and natural and suitable elevations are unattainable. The popularity of this class of reservoir being on the increase, it would seem that along with the many exhaustive and elaborate discussions of kindred subjects, as hydraulics, hydrostatics, statics, stress, and the metallurgy and physical properties of structural steel, there might be found some work dealing with this now important subject, but so far as the writer is aware, in the entire range of such productions, only the most fragmentary articles are to be found.
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