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1/60th Working Model of Grand Coulee Dam

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Title 1/60th Working Model of Grand Coulee Dam
 
Description Knowledge of the action and behavior of water flow over dams can be gained only by the careful study of accurately scaled models such as this. They reveal not only information concerning their prototypes, but furnish data for the design of even larger and more difficult structures. The Grand Coulee Dam, during the greater part of 1933, had a very indefinite status, for the reason that there was an uncertainty as to whether it would be a State or Federal project. During September of 1933 the...
 
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
 
Creator Clifford R. Koester
 
Subject Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)---Models; Civil engineering; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--Design and construction
Dam construction
 
Type Photograph
 
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
 
Identifier 709b1v3p298.jpg
http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/koester,1252
 
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
 
Source A History of the Columbia Basin Project (Vol. 3, Page 298)-Cage 709: Clifford R. Koester Papers, 1927-1972: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg709.htm
 
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm , or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
 
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 pixels by the long side for master TIFF files on an Plustek OpticBook 3600 Plus. Also, 24 bit 150 PPI JPEGs were created with the OpticBook 3600 Plus and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries
 
Language English
 
Date 2008
 
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