The Resource Water to the angels: : William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles, (downloadable audiobook)
Water to the angels: : William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles, (downloadable audiobook)
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The item Water to the angels: : William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles, (downloadable audiobook) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jericho Public Library.
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- Summary
- The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created-William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct-a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles-allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power-including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare-behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before-considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century-Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future. Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 11 min.))
- Isbn
- 9780062373847
- Label
- Water to the angels: : William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles
- Title
- Water to the angels:
- Title remainder
- William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created-William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct-a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles-allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power-including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare-behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before-considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century-Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future. Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
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- Standiford, Les
- Dewey number
- 979.4/9404092
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- not applicable
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Robert Fass
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- Fass, Robert
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- Water-supply
- Mulholland, William
- Water-supply engineers
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Water to the angels: : William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles, (downloadable audiobook)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
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- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 11 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
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- Isbn
- 9780062373847
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- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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- unknown
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- 11586980
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- MWT11586980
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- unknown
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- Sound
- sound
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- digital recording
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- other
- remote
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- other
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- not applicable
- Label
- Water to the angels: : William Mulholland, his monumental aqueduct, and the rise of Los Angeles, (downloadable audiobook)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 11 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780062373847
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Other physical details
- digital.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 11586980
- Publisher number
- MWT11586980
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
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- Tape width
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