Rivers and Canals 2 Volume Set: With Statistics of the Traffic on Inland Waterways (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)

Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) drew on a distinguished career in canal and river engineering for this illustrated two-volume survey, here reissued in its enlarged 1896 second edition. Having started as an assistant to the civil engineer John Hawkshaw, Vernon-Harcourt was appointed resident engineer in 1866 for new works on London's East and West India docks. Later, as a consulting engineer, he specialised in the design and construction of harbours, docks, canals and river works, and he was elected professor of civil engineering at University College London in 1882. This publication covers the design and construction of tidal and flood defences, canals, locks, and irrigation works. Volume 1 covers the physical characteristics of rivers and estuaries, and the control of their flow through dredging and flood defences. Volume 2 covers the construction of canals, locks and irrigation works. Vernon-Harcourt's Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.
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An aparitie	2015
Autor	Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
Dimensiuni	14 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm
Editura	Cambridge University Press
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9781108081108
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	760