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Heavy Ground : William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster /
"Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster, the worst civil engineering disaster in 20th century-American history . Some 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland sud...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reno, Nevada :
University of Nevada Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Heavy Ground : |b William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster / |c Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue: "A misty haze over everything" -- Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Civic responsibility and reparations -- The politics of safety : inquest and investigations -- Dam building after the flood -- Postscript: William Mulholland -- Appendix A: How fast could the reservoir have been lowered? -- Appendix B: Was failure inevitable? | |
| 520 | |a "Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster, the worst civil engineering disaster in 20th century-American history . Some 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara River Valley"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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