Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 538 g
Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 538 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
ISBN: 978-1-108-08060-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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 2 covers canal engineering, discussing the design and construction of canals and their associated works such as locks and lifts. Vernon-Harcourt also discusses ship canals and irrigation works. His Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.
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Contents; List of illustrations; 15. Canal works; 16. Canal locks; 17. Canal inclines and lifts; 18. Irrigation works; 19. Perennial irrigation canals; 20. Inland navigation; 21. Inland navigation (continued); 22. Forms of barges, methods of traction, and ship-canals instead of rivers; 23. Ship-canals for ports; 24. Interoceanic ship-canals; 25. Interoceanic ship-canals (continued); Index; Plates.
