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Chelsea to Cairo-- 'Taylor-made' Water Through Eleven Reigns and in Six Continents: A History of John Taylor & Sons and Their Predecessors
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Hendricks, David (2005). Water Treatment Unit Processes: Physical and Chemical. CRC Press, p665.
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system to purify the water they were drawing from the
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James Simpson (disambiguation)

British
civil engineer
Institution of Civil Engineers
Royal Society
FRS
FRSA
civil engineer
Institution of Civil Engineers
Thomas Simpson
Chelsea Waterworks
Lambeth Waterworks Company
slow sand filtration
River Thames
Windsor Castle
Bristol
The Wooden Pier
Southend on Sea
J. Simpson & Co.
ISBN
0-7277-0392-7
Brief History of the Chelsea Waterworks
ISBN
0-8247-0695-1
The Great Sheffield Flood
Chelsea to Cairo-- 'Taylor-made' Water Through Eleven Reigns and in Six Continents: A History of John Taylor & Sons and Their Predecessors
ISBN
978-0-7277-3411-2
James Meadows Rendel

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