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      • Volume 2: Canals
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2016
      02 July 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316136430
      9781108080606
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316136430
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 382 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Water Resources, Engineering: General Interest, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Water Resources, Engineering: General Interest, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) drew on a distinguished career in canal and river engineering for this illustrated two-volume survey, here reissued in its enlarged 1896 second edition. Having started as an assistant to the civil engineer John Hawkshaw, Vernon-Harcourt was appointed resident engineer in 1866 for new works on London's East and West India docks. Later, as a consulting engineer, he specialised in the design and construction of harbours, docks, canals and river works, and he was elected professor of civil engineering at University College London in 1882. This publication covers the design and construction of tidal and flood defences, canals, locks, and irrigation works. Volume 2 covers canal engineering, discussing the design and construction of canals and their associated works such as locks and lifts. Vernon-Harcourt also discusses ship canals and irrigation works. His Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.

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