Rivers and Canals
With Statistics of the Traffic on Inland Waterways
Seiten
2015
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-08059-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-08059-0 (ISBN)
A distinguished consulting engineer and professor of civil engineering, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) specialised in canals, docks, and river works. This illustrated two-volume survey covers the design and construction of tidal and flood defences, canals, locks, and irrigation works. It is reissued here in the enlarged 1896 second edition.
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 works such as weirs and breakwaters. Vernon-Harcourt also discusses the design of flood defences. His Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.
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 works such as weirs and breakwaters. Vernon-Harcourt also discusses the design of flood defences. His Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.
Preface; Contents; List of illustrations; 1. Physical characteristics; 2. Measurement and formulae of discharge; 3. Regulation and canalization of rivers; 4. Dredging and excavating; 5. Locks, and fixed and draw-door weirs; 6. Movable weirs; 7. Prediction of floods and protection from inundations; 8. Deltas of tideless rivers and improvement of their outlets; 9. Jetties and breakwaters at the mouths of rivers; 10. Tidal flow in rivers, and forms of estuaries; 11. Dredging in tidal rivers; 12. Training works in estuaries; 13. Training works in estuaries (continued); 14. Experimental investigations on training works in estuaries; Plates.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.7.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology ; Volume 1 |
| Zusatzinfo | 14 Line drawings, unspecified; 10 Line drawings, color |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-08059-6 / 1108080596 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-08059-0 / 9781108080590 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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