Dams. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Donald C. Jackson.
• Other Names: Jackson, Donald C (Donald Conrad), 1953-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (404 pages)
• Subjects: 627/.8; Dams -- Design and construction; Dams -- Design and construction
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351946513
• Related ISBNs: 135194651X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.