The Measurement of the Nile Through the Sluices of the Assuan Dam

Sir Murdoch MacDonald; Harold Edwin Hurst

Published by The Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, 1921

About this Item

A presentation copy of this very scarce report on the volumes of water discharged through the sluices of the Assuan dam. The first edition of this report by leading hydrologist and namesake of the 'Hurst Exponent', Harold Edwin Hurst and Murdoch MacDonald, who was responsible for the first stages of the Giza irrigation scheme and went on to become adviser to Egypt's Minister of Public Works.An authors' presentation copy of this work, with the inscription 'F. Newhouse Esg. Khartoum, with the authors' compliments' to the head of the front wrap. This work is from the library of Frederic Newhouse (1883-1969), sometime inspector-general of Egyptian irrigation in the Sudan.Illustrated with a folding plate featuring graphs displaying quantities of discharge from the Nile.This work discusses the methods of measuring the discharge and volume of water flowing through the Nile in the region of the Assuan - or Aswan - dam, a gravity masonry buttress dam found to be inadequate for development needs and raised nine metres between 1929 and 1933 under the supervision of MacDonald.This work also contains an excerpt of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. ccxii, Session 1920-1921, Part II. This is a very scarce publication from the Institution, the first professional engineering body formed in the early nineteenth century, and one of many works published by them. Publisher's original front wrap detached, with rear wrap absent. Edgewear to front wrap, with authors' inscription to wrap head. Internally, binding significantly strained between gatherings. Pages clean and bright. Good Only. Seller Inventory # 796F20

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Measurement of the Nile Through the ...

Publisher: The Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster

Publication Date: 1921

Binding: Paperback

Illustrator: Not Stated

Condition: Good Only

Signed: signed by author

Edition: First edition.

Book Type: book