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...greatest engineers of America, and is very efficient as an organizer. He has carried through many important projects, including the driving of a tunnel under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, which many scientists declared impossible. Mr. Cooper's greatest feat, however, was the construction of the huge water power dam across the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa. The dam is made of concrete, and extends nine-tenths of a mile between Iowa and Illinois. The power is generated in thirty special turbines, which generate 200,000 horse-power. These turbines were designed by Mr. Cooper...
...crew A, Murray going to bow on crew B. The coxswains are still rowing in the same order as last week. Practice yesterday consisted of a long row for all the boats. Both crew A and crew B went down-stream from Newell Boat House to the Dam and back while crew C rowed up-stream to the Arsenal. The revised order of the crews is as follows...
...crews had a busy day yesterday despite the disagreeable weather conditions. The University and second boats rowed to the dam and back, the choppy water in the Basin affording them good practice while the third and Freshman crews went up-stream. Meyer is now rowing at seven in the second eight, in place of Curtis, who is sick...
...technical portion of this issue is largely devoted to matters which more particularly interest the civil engineer. The Diversion Works for the Arrowrock Dam, which when complete, will be the highest dam in the world, and The improvement of the Neponset River are important from a hydraulic and sanitary engineering point of view respectively...
...ENGINEERING SOCIETY. "The Mississippi Dam at Keokuk." Mr. M. M. Warren. "American Power Dam Construction." Mr. K. R. Garland. Common Room, Conant Hall...