Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from On the Adaptation of Movable Dams to the Ohio and Other Rivers of the United States as Practiced by the United States Corps of Engineers
The problem of the improvement of the Ohio River and its tributaries has engaged the attention of the Civil and Military Engineers of the United States for many years, but it is not pro posed to detail the history of these projects further than to show the condition of the science at the time when the present works were undertaken and the recent modifications, which have rendered the application of the French Dams of Mr. Chanoine possible on so large a scale.
Among the early projects was that of the improvement by dams and dikes begun on the Ohio in 1836, and which proved so successful that it was subsequently extended.
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