Dams

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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.

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

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Publication Date:©1997.

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Publisher(s):Ashgate, Variorum
Place of Publication:Aldershot
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1997.

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Description:xl, 364 pages ; : 25 cm.

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ISBN:0860787532, 9780860787532
oclc:ocm59622951
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 / 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 / …