Record Details
Report on municipally manufactured cements, Los Angeles Aqueduct
Claremont Colleges Digital Library
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Report on municipally manufactured cements, Los Angeles Aqueduct |
| Creator | Finkle, Frederick C.; Loomis, Chester B.; Purcell, Gervais; Sanders, W. H. |
| Subject | American Society for Testing Materials; American Society of Civil Engineers; Aqueducts; Aqueducts--California; Artesian wells; Association of American Portland Cement Manufacturers; Bookbinding; Bridges; California Portland Cement Company; Canals; Canyons; Cement; Cement plants; Chemists; Concrete; Culverts; Dams; Dams--California; Engineers; Intakes (Hydraulic engineering); Landscape photography; Letters; Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.); Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875; Manholes; Men's clothing; Mills and mill-work; Mountain passes; Mountain passes California; Mountains; Photographs; Portland cement; Portland cement--Additives; Portraits, Group; Pozzuolanas; Quarries and quarrying; Reservoirs; Reservoirs--California; Sherman, C. E. (Christopher Elias), 1869-1940; Signatures (Writing); Siphons; Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915; Thompson, Sanford E. (Sanford Eleazer), 1867-1949; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Water-power; Water tunnels |
| Coverage | Antelope Valley (Calif.); Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.); Independence (Calif.); Kern County (Calif.); Lone Pine (Calif.); Los Angeles (Calif.); Los Angeles County (Calif.); Mojave (Calif.); Owens River (Calif.); San Fernando Valley (Calif.); San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Description | Bound manuscript contains a report by a committee of engineers on the quality of cement used for the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Report gives information related to defects found in the cement mixtures, chemical tests, and analyses of the concrete. Manuscript is comprehensive and includes extensive tables which detail composition of cement used in the aqueduct, outside references to other reports on concrete and engineering, as well as letter correspondence between the inspecting engineers and... |
| Publisher | Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | eng |
| Source | Typewritten book, 9 x 11.56 inches, 114 scanned pages: call number TA435. P971, Water Resources Collection, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library |
| Relation | Water Resources Collection California Water Documents - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cwd |
| Rights | The Claremont Colleges Library, Special Collections For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/ |
| Type | Text; Image |
| Format | image/jp2 |
| Identifier | cwd00124 http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cwd/id/2329 |
