Columbia River Estuary model study collection, 1921-1936 (bulk 1932-1936).

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Columbia River Estuary model study collection, 1921-1936 (bulk 1932-1936).

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Under the leadership of Morrough P. O'Brien, a model of the estuary of the Columbia River was built and tested at the University of California, Berkeley, to study the effects of proposed changes in the navigation channels on currents and sediment movement. The project was sponsored by the North Pacific Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was called the "U.S. Tidal Model Laboratory." A description of the work can be found in "Field and laboratory studies, navigation channels of the Columbia River Estuary," Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Coastal Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1972, p. 2475-2498.

3 lin. ft. (3 cartons) ; 44 x 31 x 27 cm.

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United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ships.

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O'Brien, Morrough P. (Morrough Parker), 1902-1988

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Biographical Information Morrough Parker O'Brien was born in Hammond, Indiana, on September 21, 1902. He completed high school in Toledo, Ohio, and received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925. He did graduate work at Purdue University, 1925-1927, and in 1927-1928, as the John R. Freeman Scholar of the American Society of Civil Engineers for study of fluid mechanics at the Technische Hochschule in Da...

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. North Pacific Division

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U.S. Tidal Model Laboratory.

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