Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonThe Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Falls City engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonThe "Falls City" Engineers; a History of the Louisville District Corps of Engineers, United States Army. [By] Leland R. Johnson
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Ohio River Division. Louisville DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
En bog om Louisville Districts ingeniør troppers historie. Især kystsikring mod syd, med dæmninger og diger.
The Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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River Rises
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Louisville DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Structures in the Stream
Author: Todd A. ShallatPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292776791
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
As the Mississippi and other midwestern rivers inundated town after town during the summer of 1993, concerned and often angry citizens questioned whether the very technologies and structures intended to "tame" the rivers did not, in fact, increase the severity of the floods. Much of the controversy swirled around the apparent culpability of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the designer and builder of many of the flood control systems that failed. In this book, Todd Shallat probes the origins of the United States' oldest and largest water management agency and explores how the Corps' emphasis on scientific planning cut against the grain of a nation deeply committed to private enterprise and community rights. Combining extensive research with a lively, engaging style, Shallat follows the technological elite of the army from European antecedents through the boom years of river building after the Civil War. He tells the story of monumental construction and engineering fiascoes, public service and public corruption, and the rise of science and the army expert as agents of the state. Information on engineering during the Civil War, the influence of women and family on the political and organizational philosophy of the Corps, and numerous historical illustrations add interesting highlights to the story. Much more than an institutional history, Structures in the Stream offers significant insights into American society, which has alternately supported the massive public works projects that are a legacy of our French heritage and opposed them based on the democratic, individualist tradition inherited from Britain. It will provide important reading for a wide audience in environmental andmilitary history, the history of science and technology, policy studies, and American cultural history.
History of Navigation in the Ohio River Basin
Author: Michael C. RobinsonPublisher:
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Category : Ohio River
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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