Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 1020
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Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 1020
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marvin E. Sullivan
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Engineering Institute of Canada
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 274
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 642
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jessica B. Teisch
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0807878014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions. In the frontiers of Australia, South Africa, Hawaii, and Palestine--semiarid regions that shared a need for water to support growing populations and economies--California water engineers applied their expertise in irrigation and mining projects on behalf of foreign governments and business interests. Engineering Nature explores how controlling the vagaries of nature abroad required more than the export of blueprints for dams, canals, or mines; it also entailed the problematic transfer of the new technology's sociopolitical context. Water engineers confronted unforeseen variables in each region as they worked to implement their visions of agrarian settlement and industrial growth, including the role of the market, government institutions, property rights, indigenous peoples, labor, and, not last, the environment. Teisch argues that by examining the successes and failures of various projects as American influence spread, we can see the complex role of globalization at work, often with incredibly disproportionate results.
Author: Donald J. Pisani
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-12-31
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0520927583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country—shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself. What began as the underwriting of a variety of projects to create family farms and farming communities had become by the 1930s a massive public works and regional development program, with an emphasis on the urban as much as on the rural West.
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 1018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David P. Billington
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2017-04-20
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0806157895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river’s natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. In particular, the authors describe how two federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, became key players in the creation of these important public works. By illuminating the mathematical analysis that supported large-scale dam construction, the authors also describe how and why engineers in the 1930s most often opted for massive gravity dams, whose design required enormous quantities of concrete or earth-rock fill for stability. Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape—both politically and physically—and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.