Reports, specifications, and estimates of public works in the United States of America : comprising the Philadelphia gas works ; reservoir dam across the Swatara ; twin locks on the Schuylkill Canal ; Delaware Breakwater ; Philadelphia Water Works ; dam and lock on the Sandy and Beaver Canal ; dam on the James River and Kanawha Canal, Virginia ; locks of eight feet lift, on the same ; aqueducts across Rivanna River and Byrd Creek, on the same ; superstructure, etc., of farm bridges, on the same ; lock gates and mitre sills / ed. by William Strickland, Edward H. Gill, Henry R. Campbell ; explanatory of the atlas folio of detailed engraving elucidating the engineering works herein described.

Main entry:

Strickland, William, 1787-1854.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : J. Weale, 1841.

Description:

[4], 168 pages ; 23 cm + 1 atlas ([4], 40 leaves of plates (some foled) : illustrations, map ; 55 cm)

Notes:
Atlas entitled: Public works of the United States of America; plates engraved by John and J.H. Le Keux.

Subject:

Public works United States.
Hydraulic engineering.
Gas manufacture and works Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Technologie hydraulique.
hydraulic engineering.
Gas manufacture and works.
Public works.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States.

Added entries:

Gill, Edward H.
Campbell, Henry R.
Strickland, William, 1787-1854. Public works of the United States of America.

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Location: Library cage m 186709
Call No.: ID:88-B10980
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 241497
Call No.: ID:88-B10980
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

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