Dams /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot ; Brookfield, VT, USA :
Ashgate,
[1997]
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| Series: | Studies in the history of civil engineering ;
v. 4. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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