Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt

1839 – 1907

• Achievements in engineering during the last half century
• Civil engineering as applied in construction
• Harbours and docks
• Rivers and canals
• Sanitary engineering with respect to water-supply and sewage disposal
• The doctrine of the deluge
• Conditions affecting the force of waves and the construction of breakwaters to resist them
• Formulary of the characteristic particulars about a tidal river
• Harbours and estuaries on sandy coasts
• Investigation of the methods best suited for surmounting great differences of level between the reaches of canals
• Report on the river Húgli
• The Canalization of Rivers and the Different Systems of Movable Weirs: Report