{"id":672,"date":"2011-02-06T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=672"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:09:20","slug":"1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/06\/1891\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 31 – 1891: The Cleaning and Sewerage of Cities by Reinhard Baumeister"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Published: New York, 1891<\/p>\n

By 1891, Reinhard Baumeister, though less familiar to American engineers, had already established himself as one of Germany\u2019s leading authorities on urban planning. \u00a0The translator of this text, careful to account for differences between German and American conceptions of urban cleanliness, quotes Baumeister in his introduction: \u201cThe author,\u201d the translator writes, \u201ccredits us very truly with being \u2018less willing to put up with the inconvenience of overflowed streets and cellars.\u2019\u201d \u00a0There\u2019s no question that turmoil would have ensued, had this fundamental \"\"<\/a>difference in expectations been ignored by the designers of sewage systems in the United States.<\/p>\n

The MIT Library received this copy on 25 May 1891, just two years after the Institute established the country\u2019s first sanitary engineering curriculum. \u00a0The Library\u2019s copy bears the label of a local Boston bookseller, W.B. Clarke & Co., then located not far from MIT\u2019s old Back Bay campus \u2013 a reminder of the times when an MIT librarian might use the neighborhood bookstore to help build a cutting-edge research collection.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published: New York, 1891 By 1891, Reinhard Baumeister, though less familiar to American engineers, had already established himself as one of Germany\u2019s leading authorities on urban planning. \u00a0The translator of this text, careful to account for differences between German and American conceptions of urban cleanliness, quotes Baumeister in his introduction: \u201cThe author,\u201d the translator writes, \u201ccredits us very truly with being \u2018less willing to put up with the inconvenience of overflowed streets and cellars.\u2019\u201d \u00a0There\u2019s no question that turmoil would have ensued, had this fundamental difference in expectations been ignored by the designers of sewage systems in the United States. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}