Author: Carolyn Bernhardt
Publisher: Super Sandcastle
ISBN: 9781532111235
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kids will learn about different uses for canals with Engineer It! Canal Projects. They will discover how canals are built. Then, use clay, LEGOs, and more to build their own canals. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time!Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Engineer It! Canal Projects
Author: Carolyn Bernhardt
Publisher: Super Sandcastle
ISBN: 9781532111235
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kids will learn about different uses for canals with Engineer It! Canal Projects. They will discover how canals are built. Then, use clay, LEGOs, and more to build their own canals. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time!Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Publisher: Super Sandcastle
ISBN: 9781532111235
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kids will learn about different uses for canals with Engineer It! Canal Projects. They will discover how canals are built. Then, use clay, LEGOs, and more to build their own canals. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Young crafters will be budding engineers in no time!Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Impossible Engineering
Author: Chandra Mukerji
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833140
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites. Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833140
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites. Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.
The Engineer
Canals
Author: Robert J. Kapsch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393730883
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393730883
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system.
Building and Engineering News
Indian Engineering
Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the Panama Canal
Author: United States. Board of Consulting Engineers for the Panama Canal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers for the Panama Canal
Author: United States. Board of Consulting Engineers on Panama Canal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Engineering and Contracting
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers on Civil Works Activities
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Civil Works Directorate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description