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Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood And the Control of Water in the West Book

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Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood And the Control of Water in the West, Most water control projects in the American West depend on huge gravity dams, whose stability lies in massive quantities of concrete and earth or rock fill. In the early twentieth century, John S. Eastwood designed novel dams that minimized the concrete n, Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood And the Control of Water in the West
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  • Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood And the Control of Water in the West
  • Written by author Donald C. Jackson
  • Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 2005/11/22
  • Most water control projects in the American West depend on huge gravity dams, whose stability lies in massive quantities of concrete and earth or rock fill. In the early twentieth century, John S. Eastwood designed novel dams that minimized the concrete n
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Introduction to the Oklahoma Edition vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Dams, Water, and the West 1
2 Dams: A Technical and Historical Review 13
3 Early Years in Fresno: Rise and Fall of the San Joaquin Electric Company 41
4 Big Creek, Henry Huntington, and the Origins of the Multiple Arch Dam (1900-1907) 59
5 Success at Hume Lake and Big Bear Valley (1908-1911) 85
6 Confrontation at Big Meadows: John R. Freeman and the "Psychology" of Dam Design (1911-1913) 109
7 In Search of Patronage: The Business of a Dam Design Specialist (1913-1918) 135
8 Theory and Practice in Dam Design 169
9 Evolution of a Structural Artist (1918-1924) 193
10 The Multiple Arch Dam After Eastwood
Sources 255
Notes 259
Glossary 317
List of Illustrations of Dams 323
Index 325


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