[PDF] Full Grand Coulee Dam Download eBook

Grand Coulee

Author: Paul C. Pitzer

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874221107

In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular. These visionaries accomplished their objective against the backdrop of the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The dam and the extensive irrigation network it supports stand today as a monument to their dreams and labors.

Grand Coulee Dam

Author: Ray Bottenberg

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738556123

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Washington's Grand Coulee is an ice-age channel that carried the Columbia River when ice dammed its main course. Grand Coulee was long recognized as an ideal place to store Columbia River water to irrigate the arid but fertile Columbia Basin. A dam was proposed as early as 1903, but opposition by Spokane private power interests and the cost of the dam delayed design and construction until the administration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a public power advocate, used the Grand Coulee Dam project to help put the unemployed to work. The result was the world's largest man-made structure, and also the world's largest power plant, costing more than $163 million and the lives of at least 72 workers. The dam powered production of aluminum, atomic weapons, shipbuilding, and much more, contributing mightily to America's victory in World War II. Postwar developments provided irrigation for 700,000 acres of farmland.

The Mightiest of Them All

Author: L. Vaughn Downs

Publisher: ASCE Publications

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780784473740

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Mightiest of Them All: Memories of Grand Coulee Dam presents the experiences of L. Vaughn Downs from the time he started working on the dam when it was in the design stage, through the construction period and into many years of actual dam operation and maintenance. He provides glimpses into the personalities connected with the project and explains the many techniques and pieces of equipment that were developed or improved as the dam was built. Downs also devotes considerable attention to problems they encountered and the solutions developed in the hope that others will learn from these situations. This revised edition brings the story up to the current period with an examination of the upkeep and condition of the dam after 50 years, and its prospects for the future. Engineers, architects, and interested general readers will feel the thrill of this extraordinary dam, as the informative text and bounty of photographs illustrate various stages of construction and the dramatic rates of progress attained.

The Dam

Author: Murray Morgan

Publisher: New York : Viking Press

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The story of the Grand Coulee Dam and a near tragedy on March 14, 1952 when the Grand Coulee began to fail. At the time the book was published, it was the largest concrete dam in the world.

Grand Coulee Dam

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

River Lost

Author: Blaine Harden

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997-11-04

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780393316902

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Details the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant and irrigation projects, not realizing the longterm effects of killing the river.

The Grand Coulee Dam Area

Author: George Anderson Shipman

Publisher:

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Environmental ScienceBites

Author: Kylienne A. Clark

Publisher: The Ohio State University

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.