Abstract：
When the Brooklyn Waterworks opened in 1859, it was one of America\'s most advanced water and sewer systems. Yet after Brooklyn was annexed by New York City, the waterworks\' history slipped into obscurity, despite having a now-famous champion: the \"poet of America,\" Walt Whitman, whose brother worked on the project. This article shows the Brooklyn poet\'s fierce, multiyear lobbying effort for the waterworks in various newspapers and introduces a wealth of newly recovered Whitman writings on the issue. As a journalist, Whitman exemplifies the nineteenth-century press as an intermediary between expert engineers and popular readers. The poet brought precise expertise, translated engineers\' technical arguments into everyday language for his readers, and fought the resulting day-to-day political battles over construction in print. Whitman, then, is an underappreciated case study of the confluence of technology, public health, and local journalism.
摘要：
当布鲁克林水厂于1859年开业时，它是美国最先进的水和下水道系统之一。然而在布鲁克林被纽约市吞并后，自来水厂的历史陷入了默默无闻，尽管有一个现在著名的冠军：“美国诗人，“沃尔特·惠特曼，他的兄弟在这个项目上工作。这篇文章展示了布鲁克林诗人的凶猛，在各种报纸上为自来水厂进行了多年的游说工作，并介绍了惠特曼在该问题上新近恢复的大量著作。作为一名记者,惠特曼将十九世纪的媒体作为专家工程师和大众读者之间的中介。诗人带来了精确的专业知识，将工程师的技术论点翻译成他的读者的日常语言，并为印刷建筑进行了日常政治斗争。惠特曼,然后,是一个被低估的技术融合案例研究，公共卫生,和当地新闻。
