Author: Richard C. AlbertPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046635
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Damming the Delaware
Author: Richard C. AlbertPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046635
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Power Aspects of the Tocks Island Dam, Delaware River Basin, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Flood Control - Harbors and Rivers ... 91-1, March 18, 19, 1969. Serial No. 91 - 4
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Delaware Diary
Author: Frank DalePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813522838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Tracing the history of the Delaware, this book delves into archives and newspaper files to explore the men who tried to tame this wild river. Many attempted to venture down it in a variety of vehicles due to the needs of commerce, but in recent times it has been converted to leisure activities.
Power Aspects of the Tocks Island Dam, Delaware River Basin
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 91-4. Reviews requested revisions to Tocks Island Dam power plant plan including National Park Service request for additional recreation facilities, and private utilities' request for construction of privately operated pumped storage plant in place of conventional power plant. Also discusses adverse effect of plant construction on Delaware oyster industry.
Tocks Island
Author: David C. PiercePublisher:
ISBN: 9781960377845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Shadow of the Dam
Author: Elizabeth M. SharpePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416572643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation wondering how this terrible calamity had happened. In this compelling tale of a man-made disaster peopled with everyday heroes and arrogant scoundrels, Elizabeth Sharpe opens a rare window into industry and village life in nineteenth-century New England, a time when dam failures and other industrial accidents were widespread and laws favored factory owners rather than factory workers. In the Mill Valley, the townsfolk depended upon generally benevolent patriarchs who assured them that the dam was safe, when most people could see that it was not. The story of the Mill River flood is the story of those townsfolk: of George Cheney, the dam keeper whose repeated warnings about leaks in the dam had been ignored by the mill owners; of his wife, Elizabeth, who watched in disbelief as the dam burst open from the bottom; of Isabell Hayden, the mother who saw her young son swept away in the river's torrent; and of Fred Howard, a box maker who spent the days after the flood searching for bodies, burying friends, and waiting to see if the button factory he relied upon for his livelihood would be rebuilt. It is also the story of the well-meaning but overconfident businessmen who built the dam: of Onslow Spelman, the manufacturer who dismissed the dam keeper's flood warning, irrationally insisting that the dam could not break; of Lucius Fenn and Joel Bassett, the engineer and contractor whose roles in the construction of the dam would be questioned during the public inquest into the causes of the flood; of William Skinner, the factory owner who struggled to decide whether or not to rebuild his silk factory in the village that bore his name; and of many others. The flood highlighted class divisions between worker and owner, as well as the disorganized state of professional engineering, then still in its infancy. As the flood exposed the dangers of allowing mill owners -- who were not trained engineers -- to design their own dam, legislation to regulate the building of reservoir dams in Massachusetts was enacted for the first time. Engineers, politicians, and business owners battled over control of the reform measures to prevent similar tragedies, yet saw them continually repeated. In the Shadow of the Dam is the story of an event that reshaped a society. Told through the eyes of villagers like Collins Graves, lauded as a hero for his desperate ride through the valley to warn people of the impending flood, and industrialists like Joel Hayden Jr., entrusted with the responsibility of disaster relief despite his culpability in failing to maintain the leaking dam, In the Shadow of the Dam is a history of our uneasy relationship with industrial progress and a riveting narrative of a tragic disaster in small-town Massachusetts.
The Delaware River
Author: Frank Harris MoyerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467141151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Emerging from the Catskills, the Delaware River winds along the border between Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the Atlantic, offering hundreds of miles of magnificent scenery. Its sparkling waters supported the Lenape tribes growing maize along its banks. English explorers sailed the river in search of the mythical Lake Laconia, believed to be the source of all northeastern rivers. Urban growth pitted railroads, industry and energy companies against protectionists in continuing fights over appropriate use of the river. Hunting, fishing and boating remain vital local traditions passed from one generation to the next. Author Frank H. Moyer charts the life and legacy of the mighty Delaware.
Boundaries of Analysis
Author: Harold A. FeivesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Delaware
Author: Richard WorthPublisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516245690
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rewritten and newly designed, with full-color maps and illustrations, age-appropriate activites, this series provides readers with a detailed exploration of the colonization of America. Compelling coverage of the people and events that shaped a new nation.
Delaware, the First State
Author: Carol E. HoffeckerPublisher: B B& A Publishers
ISBN: 9780970580405
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines the history of Delaware, from its first inhabitants and the arrival of European settlers to the effect of modern times on its business and government.