Excerpts from & Sources for:
BUILDING THE ULTIMATE DAM
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selections
from various parts of the text,
simply "click" on headings.
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE:
Dams, Water and the West
CHAPTER TWO:
Dams: A Technical and
Historical Review
CHAPTER THREE:
Early Years in
Fresno:
Rise and Fall of the San Joaquin Electric Company
CHAPTER FOUR:
Big Creek, Henry
Huntington,
and the Origins of the Multiple Arch Dam
(1900-1907)
CHAPTER FIVE:
Success at Hume Lake and
Big Bear Valley
(1908-1911)
CHAPTER SIX:
Confrontation at Big
Meadows:
John R. Freeman and the "Psychology" of Dam Design
(1911-1913)
CHAPTER SEVEN:
In Search of
Patronage:
The Business of a Dam Design Specialist
(1913-1918)
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Theory and Practice in
Dam Design
CHAPTER NINE:
Evolution of a Structural
Artist
(1918-1924)
CHAPTER TEN:
The Multiple Arch Dam
After Eastwood
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Documentation is drawn from
the
records and papers
of engineers, businessmen,
corporations, and government
agencies including:
John S. Eastwood
(Water Resources Center
Archives, UCAL/Berkeley)
John R. Freeman
(Special
Collections and Institute Archives,
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology,
Cambridge MA)
J. B. Lippincott
(WRCA, UCAL/Berkeley)
Walter L.
Huber
(WRCA, UCAL/Berkeley)
Henry E. Huntington
(The
Huntington Library, San Marino,
CA)
H. H. Sinclair
(The Huntington Library, San Marino,
CA)
H.W. O'Melveny
(The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA)
Colonel Ed
Fletcher
(UCAL/San Diego and
the San Diego Historical Society)
Southern California Edison Company
(Rosemead,
CA)
Hume-Bennett Lumber Company
(Archives and Historical
Collections,
Michigan State University, East Lansing
MI)
Bear Valley Mutual Water Company
(Redlands, CA)
Littlerock Creek
Irrigation District
(Littlerock, CA)
California State Railroad
Commission
(State Archives, Sacramento, CA)
California Division of
Safety of Dams
(Sacramento, CA)
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The book
also judiciously utilizes
key
books and professional journals including:
Journal of Electricity Power and
Gas
Western Engineering
Engineering
News
Transactions of the
American Society of Civil
Engineers
Western Construction News
Southwest
Builder
and Contractor
Edward Wegmann's
Design and Construction of
Dams, and
James D. Schuyler's
Reservoirs for Irrigation,
Water Power and
Domestic Water Supply
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