Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West by Donald C. Jackson

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

Donald C. Jackson

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nonfiction design history science technology informative medium-paced
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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 co...

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