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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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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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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781948908894 ● Maison d’édition University of Nevada Press ● Publié 2020 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8131984 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM

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