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Book Synopsis Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by : Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Service Commissioners
Download or read book Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Service Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by :
Download or read book Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by : Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of public service
Download or read book Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of public service and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rivers in the Desert by : Margaret Leslie Davis
Download or read book Rivers in the Desert written by Margaret Leslie Davis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News). Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This “fascinating history” chronicles Mulholland’s dramatic ascension to wealth and fame—followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed to safeguard the water supply (Newsweek). The disaster, which killed at least five hundred people, caused his repudiation by allies, friends, and a previously adoring community. Epic in scope, Rivers in the Desert chronicles the history of Los Angeles and examines the tragic fate of the man who rescued it. “An arresting biography of William Mulholland, the visionary Los Angeles Water Department engineer . . . [his] personal and public dramas make for gripping reading.” —Publishers Weekly “A fascinating look at the political maneuvering and engineering marvels that moved the City of Angels into the first rank of American cities.” —Booklist
Book Synopsis Water to the Angels by : Les Standiford
Download or read book Water to the Angels written by Les Standiford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles—allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power—including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare—behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before—considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century—Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future. Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs.
Book Synopsis Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by : Los Angeles (Calif ) Board of Public Se
Download or read book Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by Los Angeles (Calif ) Board of Public Se and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author :Los Angeles (Calif ) Board of Public Se Publisher :Andesite Press ISBN 13 :9781297514845 Total Pages :336 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (148 download)
Book Synopsis Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by : Los Angeles (Calif ) Board of Public Se
Download or read book Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by Los Angeles (Calif ) Board of Public Se and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author :Board of Public Service Commissioners Publisher :Forgotten Books ISBN 13 :9780265489925 Total Pages :340 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (899 download)
Book Synopsis Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by : Board of Public Service Commissioners
Download or read book Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by Board of Public Service Commissioners and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct: With Introductory Historical Sketch On his journeys to and from the valley, Eaton studied the country with the eye of an engineer, and he saw that in some past geo logic period the river, flowing for 100 miles along the eastern foot of the Sierra, had been a great torrent, swinging around the end of the range and pouring into the basin of the Mojave desert. Volcanic action had cut off the flow by throwing a barrier across the south end of Owens Valley and forming the enclosed basin in which the lake lies. But the barrier was low, and below it the old stream route was still open to within a few miles of the Southern California plain, the only obstacle being the range of mountains north of Los Angeles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Commemorative of the Official Opening by : Frank Bush Davison
Download or read book Commemorative of the Official Opening written by Frank Bush Davison and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Bureau of the Los Angeles Aqueduct to the Board of Public Works by : Los Angeles (Calif.) Bureau of the Los Angeles Aqueduct
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of the Los Angeles Aqueduct to the Board of Public Works written by Los Angeles (Calif.) Bureau of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Complete Rept. on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by : Los Angeles (Calif.) Dept. of Public Service
Download or read book Complete Rept. on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by Los Angeles (Calif.) Dept. of Public Service and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Building the Los Angeles Aqueduct by :
Download or read book Building the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Sketch of the Los Angeles Aqueduct ... by : Allen Kelly
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Los Angeles Aqueduct ... written by Allen Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heavy Ground written by Norris Hundley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minutes beforeÊmidnightÊon March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than 12 billion gallons of water surging through CaliforniaÕs Santa Clara Valley and killing some 400 people, causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. This extensively illustrated volume gives an account of how the St. Francis Dam came to be built, the reasons for its collapse, the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, the efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, the political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on dam safety regulation. Underlying all is a consideration of how the damÑand the disasterÑwere inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland.Ê
Book Synopsis William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by : Catherine Mulholland
Download or read book William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles written by Catherine Mulholland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-06 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history. In the first full-length biography of the water and civil engineer, his granddaughter provides insights into the triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct and the San Francisquito Dam tragedy that ended his career. Archival photos. 7 maps.
Book Synopsis Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by : Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Service Commissioners
Download or read book Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct written by Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Service Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis St. Francis Dam Disaster by : John Nichols
Download or read book St. Francis Dam Disaster written by John Nichols and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in the disaster. Captured here in over 200 images is a photographic record of the devastation caused by the flood, and the heroic efforts of residents and rescue workers. Built by the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Water Works and Supply, the failure of the St. Francis Dam on its first filling was the greatest American civil engineering failure of the 20th century. Beginning at dawn on the morning after the disaster, stunned local residents picked up their cameras to record the path of destruction, and professional photographers moved in to take images of the washed-out bridges, destroyed homes and buildings, Red Cross workers giving aid, and the massive clean-up that followed. The event was one of the worst disasters in California's history, second only to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
