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Description
Bound manuscript contains a report by a committee of engineers on the quality of cement used for the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Report gives information related to defects found in the cement mixtures, chemical tests, and analyses of the concrete. Manuscript is comprehensive and includes extensive tables which detail composition of cement used in the aqueduct, outside references to other reports on concrete and engineering, as well as letter correspondence between the inspecting engineers and those heading the Los Angeles Aqueduct project. Report contains signatures of the consulting engineers for the report. Pages 63 to 100 of report contain pictures of various parts of the aqueduct and concrete samples. Inspection was conducted from April 12th to the 21st, 1912. Photographs in report were taken April 13th through the 20th.
American Society for Testing Materials American Society of Civil Engineers Aqueducts Aqueducts--California Artesian wells Association of American Portland Cement Manufacturers Bookbinding Bridges California Portland Cement Company Canals Canyons Cement Cement plants Chemists Concrete Culverts Dams Dams--California Engineers Intakes (Hydraulic engineering) Landscape photography Letters Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.) Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 Manholes Men's clothing Mills and mill-work Mountain passes Mountain passes California Mountains Photographs Portland cement Portland cement--Additives Portraits, Group Pozzuolanas Quarries and quarrying Reservoirs Reservoirs--California Sherman, C. E. (Christopher Elias), 1869-1940 Signatures (Writing) Siphons Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915 Thompson, Sanford E. (Sanford Eleazer), 1867-1949 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Water-power Water tunnels
Place
Antelope Valley (Calif.) Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Independence (Calif.) Kern County (Calif.) Lone Pine (Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.) Los Angeles County (Calif.) Mojave (Calif.) Owens River (Calif.) San Fernando Valley (Calif.) San Francisco (Calif.)
Source
Typewritten book, 9 x 11.56 inches, 114 scanned pages: call number TA435. P971, Water Resources Collection, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
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