Word: dam
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Under the auspices of the Engineering Society, Mr. H. A. Miller, chief engineer of the Charles River Basin Commission, will give an illustrated lecture on "The General Features of the Charles River Basin, and the Construction Work on the Dam," next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock, in Pierce...
...works of building and engineering. Mr. Gilbreth will include in his lecture a plan of a school building covering an acre that was built in two months and seventeen days. He will also describe the organization process used in building the town of Woodland, Maine, which includes a dam 2000 feet long, machine shops, railroads, paper, sulphide, and ground pulp mills...
...fund of $150,000 for the endowment of a chair of Applied Forestry and Practical Lumbering has been presented to the Yale Forestry School by the National Lumber Dealers' Association. The course will furnish instruction in log scaling and timber estimating and in practical work of bridge and dam construction...
...work are as follows: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; masonry, 43,825 cubic yards; filling, 390,000 cubic yards; piling, 470,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 235,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riff raff, 9, 700 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock...
...dam will maintain a basin 8 miles long, and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level. Part of the engineering scheme for the construction of the dam provides for a temporary shut-off which will establish the level of the basin...