Dams / edited by Donald C. Jackson.

Title & Author:

Dams / edited by Donald C. Jackson.

Publication:

Description:

xl, 364 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sadd-el-Kafara, the world's oldest large dam / G. Garbrecht -- 2. The Roman dams of Subiaco / Norman A. F. Smith -- 3. The chapter on weirs in the Codex of Juanelo Turriano: a question of authorship / J. A. Garcia-Diego -- 4. Architecture for fish: the Sienese dam on the Bruna River -- structures and designs, ca. 1468-1530 / Nicholas Adams -- 5. The evolution of the arch dam / N. J. Schnitter -- 6. The evolution of buttress dams / N. J. Schnitter -- 7. The evolution of British dams / Geoffrey Binnie -- 8. The Jones Falls Dam on the Rideau Canal, Ontario, Canada / Robert F. Legget -- 9. Nineteenth-century hydropower: design and construction of the Lawrence Dam, 1845-1848 / Peter M. Molloy -- 10. The failure of the Bouzey Dam in 1895 / Norman A. F. Smith -- 11. George Deacon (1843-1909) and the Vyrnwy works / I. Davidson -- 12. Engineering in the progressive era: a new look at Frederick Haynes Newell and the U.S. Reclamation Service / Donald C. Jackson.
13. A narrow window of opportunity: the rise and fall of the fixed steel dam / Terry S. Reynolds -- 14. Considering the multiple arch dam: theory, practice and the ethics of safety in a case of innovative hydraulic engineering / Donald C. Jackson -- 15. Historical development of British embankment dams to 1960 / A. W. Skempton -- 16. Machine-age iconography in the American west: the design of Hoover dam / Richard Guy Wilson -- 17. Hoover Dam: a study in domination / Donald Worster.

Summary:

A collection of articles which illustrate the history of dam technology from ancient to modern times. It explores technical issues underlying differences in dam designs, illuminates why various societies have built dams and shows how "social" or non-technical factors have influenced dam design.

ISBN:

0860787532
9780860787532

Subject:

Dams Design and construction.
Barrages Conception et construction.

Added entries:

Jackson, Donald C. (Donald Conrad), 1953-
Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192593
Call No.: ID TC540.D37; ID:97-B3677
Status: Available

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