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xl, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Sadd-el-Kafara, the world's oldest large dam / G. Garbrecht -- The Roman dams of Subiaco / Norman A.F. Smith -- The chapter on weirs in the Codex of Juanelo Turriano : a question of authorship / J.A. Garcia-Diego -- Architecture for fish : the Sienese dam on the Bruna river--structures and designs, ca. 1468-1530 / Nicholas Adams -- The evolution of the arch dam / N.J. Schnitter -- The evolution of buttress dams / N.J. Schnitter -- The evolution of British dams / Geoffrey Binnie -- The Jones Falls Dam on the Rideau Canal, Ontario, Canada / Robert F. Legget -- Nineteenth-century hydropower : design and construction of the Lawrence Dam, 1845-1848 / Peter M. Molloy -- The failure of the Bouzey Dam in 1895 / Norman A.F. Smith -- George Deacon (1843-1909) and the Vyrnwy works / I. Davidson -- Engineering in the progressive era : a new look at Frederick Haynes Newell and the U.S. Reclamation Service / Donald C. Jackson -- A narrow window of opportunity : the rise and fall of the fixed steel dam / Terry S. Reynolds -- Considering the multiple arch dam : theory, practice and the ethics of safety in a case of innovative hydraulic engineering / Donald C. Jackson -- Historical development of British embankment dams to 1960 / A.W. Skempton -- Machine-age iconography in the American west : the design of Hoover dam / Richard Guy Wilson -- Hoover Dam : a study in domination / Donald Worster
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 4