Heavy Ground
Title | Heavy Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Norris Hundley |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2020-12-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1948908891 |
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.
Railway Tunnelling in Heavy Ground
Title | Railway Tunnelling in Heavy Ground PDF eBook |
Author | C.F. Gripper |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | 81 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 5876123021 |
Heavy Ground
Title | Heavy Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Norris Hundley |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2016-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520287665 |
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
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 790 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Elements of Mining
Title | Elements of Mining PDF eBook |
Author | George Joseph Young |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 654 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Mining engineering |
ISBN |
Mining Library: Timbering and mining
Title | Mining Library: Timbering and mining PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Mineral industries |
ISBN |
Pamphlets on Forestry in Canada
Title | Pamphlets on Forestry in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Forest products |
ISBN |