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Modeling the Water Supply
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The Board of Water Supply used models for design and celebration, from critically serious to comical and extravagant. Models were communication tools, explaining and promoting the City’s infrastructure projects, and sometimes helped determine the locations of structures or best way to build them. This story starts with some technical models, then looks at those that celebrated NYC’s water supply system and world-class engineering.
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Ridgewood Old Pumping Station
Board of Water Supply. Interior of Ridgewood Pumping Station, where the Mechanical Division was conducting tests on a 12-inch model of a riser valve for City Water Tunnel No. 1. December 2, 1912.
Ridgewood Old Pumping Station
Board of Water Supply. Interior of Ridgewood Pumping Station, where the Mechanical Division was conducting tests on a 12-inch model of a riser valve for City Water Tunnel No. 1. December 2, 1912.
Ridgewood Old Pumping Station
Ridgewood North Side Pumping Station. Interior, machine shop. No date.
Ridgewood Old Pumping Station
Ridgewood North Side Pumping Station. Showing exterior and part of Old Station. Brooklyn. No date.
Ridgewood Old Pumping Station
Ridgewood North Side Pumping Station interior. No date.
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