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Excerpt from Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-Power and Domestic Water-Supply: With an Account of Various Types of Dams and the Methods, Plans and Cost of Their Construction The kindly reception given to the first edition of this book, which appeared in 1901, and which has been in sufficient demand to necessitate a return of the forms to the press several times to supply the unanticipated call for it, has been so flattering to the author that he has been encouraged to accept the urgent advice of his publishers and many friends among the engineering profession, and attempt such a revision of the work as will bring it more nearly up to date. In the past ten or twelve years, since the first compilation of data on the construction of dams in western America was undertaken, the world in general appears to have entered upon a new era of dam and reservoir creation, and there has been such a remarkable degree of activity displayed in the conservation and utilization of water, that it may be quite reasonable to state that more dams have been built in the decade that has just passed than during any fifty years of previous history. This is true not only of the United States but also of Europe and other countries. The present appears to be an age of dam construction, and there has developed an eager demand for information regarding the actual works accomplished, their dimensions, character, plan, materials, methods of construction and cost. The author has been gratified to find his book in the hands of engineers in every part of the globe he has visited, which may be accepted as an attestation of the fact that there is a wide field for such a work. He has therefore felt it to be a duty to make it more complete, and more worthy of the interest taken in it. Much new matter has been added and some of the old has been taken out as obsolete and of little present value. The chapter on Hydraulic-fill Dams has been greatly extended by descriptions of later constructions, and two new chapters have been added, descriptive of reinforced concrete dams, the latest claimant to public attention, and of structural steel dams, which have increased in numbers and size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.