Title & Author:

Port and harbour engineering / edited by Adrian Jarvis.

Publication:

Aldershot [England] ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, ©1998.

Description:

xxxiv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Series:

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The development of harbour and dock engineering/ Sir Cyril Reginald Sutton Kirkpatrick -- Presidential address of Sir Leopold Halliday Savile, K.C.B. (President ICE, 1940-41)/ Sir Leopold Halliday Savile -- Do docks make trade? : the case of the port of Great Grimsby/ Gordon Jackson -- The engineers of Sunderland Harbour, 1718-1817/ A.W. Skempton -- The construction of Ramsgate Harbour/ Robert B. Matkin -- Thomas Steers/ Mike Clarke -- The engineering history of Hull's earliest docks/ M.W. Baldwin -- Joseph Whidbey and the building of the Plymouth Breakwater/ John Naish -- G.P. Bidder at the London Dock extension works, 1826-1828/ E.F. Clark -- Building the Millwall Docks/ Peter Guillery -- Nineteenth century engineers in the port of Bristol/ R.A. Buchanan -- The improvement of the River Tyne, 1815-1914/ R.W. Rennison -- G.F. Lyster and the role of the dock engineer, 1861-1897/ Adrian Jarvis -- Beyond the river wall : the attack on the Mersey Bar, 1890-1923/ Adrian Jarvis -- The first harbour works at Port Natal : the role of John Milne from 1849-1857/ L. Twyman -- Imperial ports and the modern world economy : the case of the Indian Ocean/ Frank Broeze, Peter Reeves and Kenneth McPherson -- The development of the port of Fremantle, Australia's western gateway/ M.T. Tull.
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Summary:

After an introductory essay on the historiography of port engineering, the editor presents a collection of 17 engineering history articles (collected from Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution for Civil Engineers , the Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society and other sources) which were published between 1925 and 1994. Covering a.

ISBN:

0860787559 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780860787556 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Harbors Design and construction History.
Harbors Case studies.
Ports Conception et construction Histoire.
Ports Études de cas.
Harbors.
Harbors Design and construction.
Bauplanung
Bautechnik
Hafen
Hafenbau
Havens.
Ingenieurs.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Case studies.
History.

Added entries:

Jarvis, Adrian.
Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200127
Call No.: TC205 .P6 1998
Status: Available