The great stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of the Victorian capital.
The great stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of the Victorian capital.
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伦敦的恶臭：约瑟夫·巴扎尔盖特爵士和维多利亚首都的净化。
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10.1016/s0961-9534(97)10020-4
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2007
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S. Halliday
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在1858年闷热的夏天，从被污染的泰晤士河流出的污水臭味如此难闻，以至于国会议员被赶出了下议院。200多万伦敦人所产生的污水正源源不断地流入这条河，并被潮水带着来回流动。《泰晤士报》称这场危机为“大恶臭”。议会不得不采取行动，采取严厉措施清理泰晤士河，改善伦敦原始的卫生系统。受议会委托承担这项艰巨任务的伟大工程师是约瑟夫·巴泽尔杰特爵士，这本书对他的生活和工作进行了精彩的描述。巴泽尔杰特对这一挑战的回应是构思并建造了一个截流下水道、泵站和污水处理厂的系统，该系统至今仍为伦敦服务。在这个过程中，他清理了伦敦泰晤士河的污水，并帮助消除了霍乱，19世纪中叶，霍乱夺走了4万多伦敦人的生命。但这个成功的计划只是巴泽尔杰特对维多利亚时代首都发展的更广泛贡献的一个因素。他还从泰晤士河填海造地，建造了维多利亚、阿尔伯特和切尔西堤岸，在普特尼、巴特西和哈默史密斯建造了横跨泰晤士河的桥梁，并创造了许多著名的新道路，包括查令十字路、诺森伯兰大道和沙夫茨伯里大道。斯蒂芬·哈利迪引人入胜的社会和个人历史，生动地展现了巴泽尔杰特的成就以及他工作和生活的时代。作者追溯了巴泽尔杰特的家庭在大革命时期的法国的起源，他从中世纪和都铎时代继承的令人困惑的卫生系统，以及他与政治家、官僚和巨大的工程问题的英勇斗争，以改变世界上最大城市的面貌和健康。
In the sweltering summer of 1858, the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. "The Times" called the crisis 'The Great Stink'. Parliament had to act - drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London's primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted by Parliament with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and this book is a fascinating account of his life and work. Bazalgette's response to the challenge was to conceive and build the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that serves London to this day. In the process he cleansed the River Thames of the capital's sewage and helped to banish cholera, which in the mid-nineteenth century carried off over 40,000 Londoners. But this successful scheme was only one element in Bazalgette's wider contribution to the development of the Victorian capital. He also reclaimed land from the Thames to construct the Victoria, Albert and Chelsea Embankments, built bridges across the Thames at Putney, Battersea and Hammersmith, and created many notable new thoroughfares including Charing Cross Road, Northumberland Avenue and Shaftesbury Avenue. Stephen Halliday's enthralling social and personal history gives a vivid insight into Bazalgette's achievements and the era in which he worked and lived. The author traces the origins of Bazalgette's family in revolutionary France, the confusing sanitation system that he inherited from medieval and Tudor times and his heroic battle with politicians, bureaucrats and huge engineering problems to transform the face and health of the world's largest city.