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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 1 covers the physical characteristics of rivers and estuaries, and the control of their flow through dredging and works such as weirs and breakwaters. Vernon-Harcourt also discusses the design of flood defences. His Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Technology: general issues History of engineering & technology

• Full title: Rivers and Canals
• Subtitle: With Statistics of the Traffic on Inland Waterways
• Author: Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378
• EAN: 9781108080590
• ISBN: 1108080596
• ID: 09200052
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 490 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 140 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. July 2015

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