Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume III
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 407
UDK: 600 eng- gl
With 424 Illustrations, Maps, and Diagrams
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RUNNING LEAD INTO JOINTS. (Photo, by courtesy of Messrs. James Simpson and Company, Limited.)
THE COOLGARDIE AQUEDUCT.
The Longest Aqueduct in the World, and, apart from its length, one of
the most remarkable.
THE aqueduct which forms the subject
of this article is as undoubtedly one
of the greatest engineering schemes
carried through on the Australian continent
as it is the longest aqueduct in the world.
The fact that the volume of water delivered
by it daily is small as compared with the
quantity passed by other aqueducts noticed
in previous articles is more than counter-
balanced by the peculiar difficulties with
which the engineers had to contend.
A Water
Famine
in the
Goldfields.
In 1892 the great Coolgardie goldfield of
Western Australia was discovered by pros-
pectors, who had spread over the country
from the then terminus of the
railway at Southern Cross,
some 235 miles from the coast.
The remaining 130 miles to
the goldfields had to be cov-
ered in the rough and ready way which
characterizes a “ rush.” A population sprang
up quickly in a district wherein good drink-