Excerpt from Tables Showing Loss of Head Due to Friction of Water in Pipes About twenty years ago, when the author first commenced to make a practical application of hydraulic formulas, he was unable to find one for calculating the loss of head due to the friction of water owing in pipes, that he had t heard criticised more or less unfavorably by hydraulic engineers. 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 techlogy 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.