Heavy Ground
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Author |
: Norris Hundley |
Publisher |
: University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2020-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781948908894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1948908891 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heavy Ground by : Norris Hundley
Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California’s Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. In this carefully researched work, Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a riveting narrative exploring the history of the ill-fated dam and the person directly responsible for its flawed design—William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer of the Los Angeles municipal water system. Employing copious illustrations and intensive research, Heavy Ground traces the interwoven roles of politics and engineering in explaining how the St. Francis Dam came to be built and the reasons for its collapse. Hundley and Jackson also detail the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, legal claims against the City of Los Angeles, efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on congressional approval of the future Hoover Dam. Underlying it all is a consideration of how the dam—and the disaster—were inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland. Ultimately, this thoughtful and nuanced account of the dam’s failure reveals how individual and bureaucratic conceit fed Los Angeles’s desire to control vital water supplies in the booming metropolis of Southern California.
Author |
: C.F. Gripper |
Publisher |
: Рипол Классик |
Total Pages |
: 81 |
Release |
: 1879 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9785876123022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 5876123021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Railway Tunnelling in Heavy Ground by : C.F. Gripper
Author |
: United States. Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 790 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3089794 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bulletin by : United States. Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology
Author |
: George Joseph Young |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 654 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89083899609 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elements of Mining by : George Joseph Young
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1909 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822042949057 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mining Library: Timbering and mining by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 1911 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$C8438 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pamphlets on Forestry in Canada by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 826 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435061977526 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers by :
Author |
: Norris Hundley |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2016-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520287662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520287665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heavy Ground by : Norris Hundley
Minutes beforeÊmidnightÊon March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than 12 billion gallons of water surging through CaliforniaÕs Santa Clara Valley and killing some 400 people, causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. This extensively illustrated volume gives an account of how the St. Francis Dam came to be built, the reasons for its collapse, the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, the efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, the political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on dam safety regulation. Underlying all is a consideration of how the damÑand the disasterÑwere inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland.Ê
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 786 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433090762976 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 718 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3022550 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |