Rivers and Canals

Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839–1907) drew on a distinguished career in canal and river engineering for this illustrated two-volume survey here reissued in its enlarged 1896 second edition. Having started as an assistant to the civil engineer John Hawkshaw Vernon-Harcourt was appointed resident engineer in 1866 for new works on London''s East and West India docks. Later as a consulting engineer he specialised in the design and construction of harbours docks canals and river works and he was elected professor of civil engineering at University College London in 1882. This publication covers the design and construction of tidal and flood defences canals locks and irrigation works. Volume 2 covers canal engineering discussing the design and construction of canals and their associated works such as locks and lifts. Vernon-Harcourt also discusses ship canals and irrigation works. His Harbours and Docks (1885) is also reissued in this series.