Author: Harry C. WaysPublisher:
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Category : Washington Aqueduct (Md. and Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Washington Aqueduct, 1852-1992
Author: Harry C. WaysPublisher:
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Category : Washington Aqueduct (Md. and Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Washington Aqueduct and the Effects of Its Discharge on the C&O Canal National Historic Park and the Endangered Shortnose Sturgeon
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
History of the Washington Aqueduct [1852-1952].
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Author: United States engineers Corps (Army).Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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The Discharge Effects of the Washington Aqueduct
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public LandsPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Proposed Water Treatment Residuals Management Process for the Washington Aqueduct
Author: Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation's Capital
Author: United States Capitol Historical SocietyPublisher: Ohio University Press
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
At the age of thirty-six, in 1852, Lt. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs of the Army Corps of Engineers reported to Washington, D.C., for duty as a special assistant to the chief army engineer, Gen. Joseph G. Totten. It was a fateful assignment, both for the nation's capital and for the bright, ambitious, and politically connected West Point graduate. Meigs's forty-year tenure in the nation's capital was by any account spectacularly successful. He surveyed, designed, and built the Washington water supply system, oversaw the extension of the U.S. Capitol and the erection of its massive iron dome, and designed and supervised construction of the Pension Building, now the home of the National Building Museum. The skills he exhibited in supervising engineering projects were carefully noted by political leaders, including president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who named Meigs quartermaster general of the Union Army, the most important position he held during his long and active military career. Meigs believed Washington, D.C., should be the reincarnation of Rome, the ancient capital of the Roman Empire. He endeavored to memorialize the story of the American nation in all the structures he built, expressing these ideas in murals, sculpture, and monumental design. Historians have long known Meigs for the organizational genius with which he fulfilled his duty as quartermaster general during the Civil War and for his unwavering loyalty to Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. This volume establishes his claim as one of the major nineteenth-century contributors to the built environment of the nation's capital.
The Building of the Roman Aqueducts
Author: Esther Boise Van DemanPublisher:
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Category : Aqueducts
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Croton Dams and Aqueduct
Author: Christopher R. TompkinsPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738504551
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This collection of rare photographs chronicles the construction of one of the largest masonry dams ever built. From the beginnings of the first Croton Dam, completed in 1842, and of the new dam, which was finished in 1907, up to the present day, The Croton Dams and Aqueduct provides a stunning portrait of the entire project and the region that it impacted: New York City and Westchester County. As early as the 1770s, New York considered creating waterworks and even proposed damming area rivers, including the Hudson. With disease and fires blamed on the lack of water, plans were created c. 1830 to dam the Croton River. By 1842, water from the first dam flowed into New York City from Yorktown. Built to provide enough water for "centuries," the first dam was obsolete by the 1880s. Exponential growth from immigration created the demand for more water, and New York built the New Croton Dam. The new dam not only provided clean water for New York's burgeoning population but also spawned a new community of immigrant workers in the once Anglo community of Westchester County.
The Washington Aqueduct
Author: District of Columbia Appropriations for 1999: Operating budget and financial plan, FY 1999
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
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