Paper, 'The principles of training rivers through tidal estuaries, as illustrated by investigations into the methods of improving the navigation channels of the estuary of the Seine [France]' by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
Reference number: PP/13/32
Date: 1889
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Vernon-Harcourt writes: 'The conditions affecting the training of rivers in the non-tidal portions of their course by jetties, or rubble embankments designated as training walls, are well understood. Training walls substitute a straightened uniform channel for irregularities and varying widths, improving the flow of the current and rendering it uniform, so that scour occurs in the shallow, narrowed portions, and more uniformity of depth is attained.'
Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes three pages of diagrams of 'investigations of schemes for improving the estuary.
Subject: Civil engineering
Received 19 January 1889. Read 7 February 1889. Communicated by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt.
A version of this paper was published in volume 45 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The principles of training rivers through tidal estuaries, as illustrated by investigations into the methods of improving the navigation channels of the estuary of the Seine'.
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- PP/13/32
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- 1889
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- Unbound paper in marbled paper cover, ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 28 pages
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- Manuscript
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Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
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Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt, Paper, 'The principles of training rivers through tidal estuaries, as illustrated by investigations into the methods of improving the navigation channels of the estuary of the Seine [France]' by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt, 1889, PP/13/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_13_32/paper-the-principles-of-training-rivers-through-tidal-estuaries-as-illustrated-by-investigations-into-the-methods-of-improving-the-navigation-channels-of-the-estuary-of-the-seine-france-by-leveson-francis-vernon-harcourt, accessed on 19 September 2024
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The principles of training rivers through tidal estuaries, as illustrated by investigations into the methods of improving the navigation channels of the estuary of the seine External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1889
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1888.0121
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 45, 1889
1889 Reference number: PP/13
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