The South Fork Dam: Historical Data
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Historical structure report on the South Fork Dam.
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Historical structure report on the South Fork Dam.
Author | : Harlan D. Unrau |
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Dam failures |
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Author | : Harlan D. Unrau |
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Dam failures |
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Author | : Neil M. Coleman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-07-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319952161 |
Science now reveals the true cause of the dam breach flood that destroyed Johnstown in 1889. The tragic loss of more than 2200 lives was preventable; the initial investigation of the flood was hijacked, delayed, and distorted by powerful members of the industrial elite. This book bridges the gap between history and science, reexamining eyewitness accounts of the flood and historic documents about the investigation, and applying new LiDAR, GPS, and hydraulic studies to solve the mystery – what caused the Great Flood of 1889? The book includes a notable chapter on the “sister” of the South Fork Dam, “The Forgotten Dam” at Hollidaysburg, PA.
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
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Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Reclamation of land |
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Author | : United States Reclamation Service |
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Crops and water |
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Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
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Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Donald C. Jackson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806137339 |
Offers compelling insight into how designer Eastwood battled government bureaucrats, corporate patrons, and fellow hydraulic engineers to build seventeen dams in the western U.S. during the early twentieth century based on his innovative multiple-arch design. Reprint.
Author | : David McCullough |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2007-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416561226 |
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Author | : Ella Sue Rayburn |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Elias J. Unger House (Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Pa.) |
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