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Title
Several of John Eastwood's original drawings for his proposed Big Creek plants still survive in Edison Company files
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information
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Description
Several of John Eastwood's original drawings for his proposed Big Creek plants still survive in Edison Company files. This drawing was prepared to show the relative strengths of, and quantities of materials required for, traditional gravity arch and rock filled dams, as compared with Eastwood's own innovative multiple arch dam design.
Type
image
Format
232150 Bytes
Extent
Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier
12 - 00013
232830
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5519
Subject
Drawings
Engineers
Hydroelectric power-plants
Dams
Place
California
Source
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Story of Big Creek
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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