TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vernon-Harcourt,Leveson Francis
TI  - Rivers and canals: with statistics of the traffic on inland waterways
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Technology
SN  - 9781316136430 (ebook)
AV  - TC145 .V4 2015
U1  - 627 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Hydraulic engineering
KW  - Canals
N1  - Originally published in Oxford by Clarendon Press in 1896; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316136430
ER  -