Project Gutenberg 2025-04-19 Public domain in the USA. 275 Burr, William H. (William Hubert) 1851 1934 Burr, William Hubert Ancient and modern engineering and the Isthmian canal First edition $aNew York :$bJ. Wiley & Sons, $c1903. Ancient civil-engineering works -- Bridges -- Water-works for cities and towns -- Some features of railroad engineering -- The Nicaragua route for a ship-canal -- The Panama route for a ship canal. Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Ancient and Modern Engineering and the Isthmian Canal" by William H. Burr is a historical and technical account written in the early 20th century. The book concentrates on the evolution of civil engineering from ancient times through to the modern era, with a particular emphasis on major infrastructural works such as bridges, water supply systems, and, notably, the development and evaluation of potential routes for a canal across the Isthmus of Panama and Nicaragua. Aimed at both professional engineers and informed lay readers, it traces humanity’s engineering feats and explores the enduring relationship between civil development and technological progress. The opening of the book lays out its origins as a series of lectures and introduces its thorough organization, including a detailed table of contents. Burr’s introduction highlights the careful selection of illustrations and the decision to expand his public lectures for publication. The first chapters begin with an exploration of civil engineering’s ancient roots, dispelling the notion that the discipline is a purely modern invention. Burr meticulously describes early engineering achievements in Chaldea and Egypt, such as vast hydraulic canal systems, advanced brick and stone construction, and large-scale public works like dams, pyramids, and city defenses. The narrative emphasizes the importance of these feats for commerce, agriculture, and defense, and it transitions to Roman innovations—roads, building materials, sewers, and bridges—demonstrating both the continuity and advancement of civil engineering methods from prehistory into recorded history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/ancientmodernen00burr 20240127095603burr 1903 us Reading ease score: 58.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Panama Canal (Panama) Canals, Interoceanic Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua) Civil engineering -- History TA Text Category: History - Ancient Category: Engineering & Technology 1271669 2025-06-30T05:36:29.756771 text/html 1291898 2025-04-23T22:11:04 text/html 17099236 2025-06-30T05:36:53.925630 application/epub+zip 17107863 2025-06-30T05:36:35.357752 application/epub+zip 545996 2025-06-30T05:36:32.545722 application/epub+zip 17629981 2025-06-30T05:37:03.814577 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 17545163 2025-06-30T05:36:50.945670 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 972280 2025-06-30T05:36:25.269790 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 952277 2025-04-23T22:11:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17341 2025-06-30T05:37:04.022569 application/rdf+xml 10899 2025-06-30T05:36:32.942713 image/jpeg 1976 2025-06-30T05:36:32.743799 image/jpeg 17326906 2025-06-30T05:36:30.432761 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia