Author: SEMARANG PUBLIC HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING LABORATORY:
Title: Ter Herinnering aan het Provinciaal Laboratorium voor Waterbouwkunde en Grondonderzoek te Semarang.
Description: Semarang, Provinciaal Laboratorium, [circa], [circa], 1935, 1936. Oblong 8°. (32x23cm.). Original cloth, original string through spine. Title in white capitals in ink on verso of front cover. Commemmorative Photo-record of 257 small original professional monochrome photographs (each approx.6.5x6 cm.) mounted on 24 stiff leaves with tissue-guards, each leave captioned in white ink at top margin listing subject of hydraulic engineering and watermanagement with topographical names, final two leaves with 8 photographs commemmorating the visit of the Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies (de Jonge) to the Laboratory Commemmorative volume of origina professionall monochrome photographs illustrating implementation of public hydraulic engineering in the Dutch East Indies designed and implemented by engineers of the Semarang public hydraulic Laboratory, with locations across Indonesia stated at top margins of leaves. Illustrating a wide scope of public engineering: barrages, locks, hydraulic pumps Serajoeplan(Java), freshet control (bandjircontrol, river control, irrigation, dams and dikes, polder control, Barrage Rentang, Tjimanoek river (West-Java), Barrages Soengei-Lenggang (Billiton island), culverts in Serang river, public sewage, sluice locks, siphons, drinkwater pump houses, jetties, etc. A very interesting album. Very fine copy.

Keywords: watermanagement hydraulics engineering commemmoration semarang public laboratory history photography record billiton java colonialism engineering jetty locks barrages polder irrigation research scienc