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ORB.40/584(12)
- Record Id:
- 040-003232311
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003232299
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026867737.0x000b6b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- ORB.40/584(12)
- Title:
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The Solani Aqueduct. Main Canal. Mile 18. Photographer: Glover, Thomas George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Industrial Photography
View looking along the aqueduct which carries the Ganges Canal over the Solani River: 'The river itself is crossed by a masonry aqueduct, which is not only the largest work of the kind in India, but one of the most remarkable for its dimensions in the world. The total length of the Solani aqueduct is 920 feet. Its clear waterway is 750 feet, in fifteen arches of 50 feet span each. The breadth of each arch is 192 feet. Its thickness is 5 feet; its form that of a segment of a circle with a rise of 8 feet. The piers rest upon blocks of masonry sunk 20 feet deep into the bed of the river, and being cubes of 20 feet wide, pierced with four wells each, and undersunk in the manner practised by the natives of India in constructing their wells. These foundations, throughout the whole structure, are secured by every device that knowledge or experience could suggest; and the quantity of masonry sunk beneath the surface is scarcely less than that visible above it...'
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003232299
040-003232311 - Is part of:
- ORB.40/584 : The Ganges Canal; illustrated by photographs. Taken by T. G. Glover, Lieut.-Colonel, Royal Engineers. 1867. Photographer(s):…
ORB.40/584(12) : The Solani Aqueduct. Main Canal. Mile 18. Photographer: Glover, Thomas George - Hierarchy:
- 032-003232299[0012]/040-003232311
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: ORB.40/584
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1863
- End Date:
- 1865
- Date Range:
- c 1864
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 185 mm x 235 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Paper
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Glover, Thomas George, army officer, engineer and painter, 1826-1881
- Subjects:
- Aqueducts
Canals
Civil engineering
Engineering
Ganges Canal (Uttaranchal/Uttar Pradesh)
Hydraulic Facilities
Irrigation Canals
Water
Water Supplies