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Reference numberAP/66/28
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Investigations into the effects of training walls in an estuary like the Mersey' by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
CreatorVernon-Harcourt; Leveson Francis (1839-1907); British civil engineer
Date1890
DescriptionA description was given in a previous paper of the results of experiments with training walls in a working model of the tidal Seine ('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'); and the present investigations were carried out with a similar working model of the Mersey estuary, from near Warrington to the open sea beyond the bar, made to a horizontal scale of 1/30000, and a vertical scale of 1/500, and with a bed form ed of fine bagshot sand. The experiments were directed to the solution of two problems, namely, the influence of training walls in the wide upper estuary on the channel below Liverpool, and across the bar; and the effects of training works in the lower estuary on the channel across the bar.

Includes two pages of figures.

Subject: Civil engineering / Marine engineering

Received 21 January 1890. Read 30 January 1890. Communicated by A [Augustus George] Vernon-Harcourt.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 47 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Investigations into the effects of training walls in an estuary like the Mersey'.
Extent13p
FormatManuscript
Drawing
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1888.0121
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1889.0076
Related records in the catalogueNLB/4/146
RR/10/351
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8233Harcourt; Augustus George Vernon (1834 - 1919)1834 - 1919
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