Reports, specifications, and estimates of public works in the United States of America
Subtitle: comprising the Philadelphia gas works; reservoir dam across the Swatara; twin locks on the Schuylkill canal; Delaware breakwater; Philadelphia water works; dam and lock on the Sandy and Beaver canal; dam on the James river and Kanawha canal, Virginia; locks of eight feet lift, on the same; aqueducts across Rivanna river and Byrd creek, on the same; superstructure, etc., of farm bridges, on the same; lock gates and mitre sills : explanatory of the atlas folio of detailed engravings elucidating the engineering works herein described
By: Edited by William Strickland, Edward H. Gill, Henry R. Campbell
Contributors: Gill, Edward H.; Campbell, Henry R.
Publisher: J. Weale
Published: 1841
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Hydraulic engineering; Gas manufacture and works; Public works
Other titles: Public works of the United States of America.
Notes: One volume of text commenting on second volume of plates.

Atlas of plates has title: Public works of the United States of America.

"The plates are engraved in the best style of art by the Le Keuxs from drawings made especially for this work"--Atlas t.p.