Dams

Title Statements

Full title :Dams / edited by Donald C. Jackson.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351946520, 1351946528
oclc:ocn988079572
LC Classification:TC540
Dewey Decimal:627/.8

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 -- 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 / Geoggrey 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 -…