The Grand Coulee Dam

Author : Paul C. Pitzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874221107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Coulee written by Paul C. Pitzer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular. These visionaries accomplished their objective against the backdrop of the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The dam and the extensive irrigation network it supports stand today as a monument to their dreams and labors.

Author : Ray Bottenberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738556123
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Coulee Dam written by Ray Bottenberg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's Grand Coulee is an ice-age channel that carried the Columbia River when ice dammed its main course. Grand Coulee was long recognized as an ideal place to store Columbia River water to irrigate the arid but fertile Columbia Basin. A dam was proposed as early as 1903, but opposition by Spokane private power interests and the cost of the dam delayed design and construction until the administration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a public power advocate, used the Grand Coulee Dam project to help put the unemployed to work. The result was the world's largest man-made structure, and also the world's largest power plant, costing more than $163 million and the lives of at least 72 workers. The dam powered production of aluminum, atomic weapons, shipbuilding, and much more, contributing mightily to America's victory in World War II. Postwar developments provided irrigation for 700,000 acres of farmland.

Author : L. Vaughn Downs
Publisher : ASCE Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780784473740
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mightiest of Them All written by L. Vaughn Downs and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mightiest of Them All: Memories of Grand Coulee Dam presents the experiences of L. Vaughn Downs from the time he started working on the dam when it was in the design stage, through the construction period and into many years of actual dam operation and maintenance. He provides glimpses into the personalities connected with the project and explains the many techniques and pieces of equipment that were developed or improved as the dam was built. Downs also devotes considerable attention to problems they encountered and the solutions developed in the hope that others will learn from these situations. This revised edition brings the story up to the current period with an examination of the upkeep and condition of the dam after 50 years, and its prospects for the future. Engineers, architects, and interested general readers will feel the thrill of this extraordinary dam, as the informative text and bounty of photographs illustrate various stages of construction and the dramatic rates of progress attained.

Author : Murray Morgan
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dam written by Murray Morgan and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Grand Coulee Dam and a near tragedy on March 14, 1952 when the Grand Coulee began to fail. At the time the book was published, it was the largest concrete dam in the world.

Author : George Anderson Shipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Coulee Dam Area written by George Anderson Shipman and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Blaine Harden
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393316902
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Lost written by Blaine Harden and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant and irrigation projects, not realizing the longterm effects of killing the river.

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Reclamation Project written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George A. Shipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Coulee Dam Area written by George A. Shipman and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kylienne A. Clark
Publisher : The Ohio State University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental ScienceBites written by Kylienne A. Clark and published by The Ohio State University. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Coulee Dam written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: