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Norris Hundley & Donald C. Jackson
Heavy Ground [EPUB ebook]
William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

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غلاف Norris Hundley & Donald C. Jackson: Heavy Ground (ePUB)

Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster in California, the worst civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American History. Approximately 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara River Valley.

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لغة الإنجليزية ● شكل EPUB ● ISBN 9781948908894 ● الناشر University of Nevada Press ● نشرت 2020 ● للتحميل 3 مرات ● دقة EUR ● هوية شخصية 8131984 ● حماية النسخ Adobe DRM

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