Rivers and Canals
With Statistics of the Traffic on Inland Waterways

The enlarged 1896 two-volume survey of canal and river-drainage engineering by a distinguished practitioner and professor of civil engineering.

Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (Author)

9781108080606, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 July 2015

382 pages, 3 colour illus.
21.7 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg

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 2 covers canal engineering, discussing the design and construction of canals and their associated works such as locks and lifts. Vernon-Harcourt also discusses ship canals and irrigation works. His Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.

Contents
List of illustrations
15. Canal works
16. Canal locks
17. Canal inclines and lifts
18. Irrigation works
19. Perennial irrigation canals
20. Inland navigation
21. Inland navigation (continued)
22. Forms of barges, methods of traction, and ship-canals instead of rivers
23. Ship-canals for ports
24. Interoceanic ship-canals
25. Interoceanic ship-canals (continued)
Index
Plates.

Subject Areas: History of engineering & technology [TBX]