NILE - Aswan Dam. Hyro[sic]-Electric Project. Alternative Scheme. Submitted by Westinghouse, Baldwin and Associates. Hydro-Electric Delegates, with Comments on Government. Scheme and Expert’s Recommendations [ cover title ].

NILE - Aswan Dam. Hyro[sic]-Electric Project. Alternative Scheme. Submitted by Westinghouse, Baldwin and Associates. Hydro-Electric Delegates, with Comments on Government. Scheme and Expert’s Recommendations [cover title]. No place or printer. 20/4/1947.

4to. Original printed and wire-stitched wrappers; pp. 59, plans and photographs comprising 2 printed graphs and 4 printed folding plans, also with a loosely inserted bifoliate in Arabic, translating as “Aswan Dam Electrification Project” which outlines, in columns, projected work and costs, including equipment for butterfly gates, pipes, waterways etc., 10 plates after photographs; wrapper with light spotting and darkening; upper margins with traces of humidity, never encroaching on printed surface; otherwise a very good copy of a rare survival.

Unrecorded. Egypt’s Aswan Dam on the Nile River, about 1,000 km south of Cairo, was built between 1899 and 1902 by the British during their period of colonial administration in Egypt. Its purpose was to control seasonal Nile River flooding and to store water for irrigation to support the country’s agricultural economy. By the 1940s there was a growing requirement to incorporate hydroelectric power to meet rising energy needs, to support industrialisation (especially fertiliser production and textile manufacturing) and to generate electricity for Cairo and Alexandria. The dam had already been raised twice by the 1930s but in the 1940s the plan was to harness the flow of the river more effectively for electrical generation. John Aird & Co., a British firm, was the principal company involved in the hydroelectric project for the Aswan Dam in the 1940s. The US engineering giant Westinghouse Electric Corporation provided the “entire power” for the project and was a consultant for the Electrification Project.

Contents: Section 1 - Summary of Conclusions; Section II Report on the Proposed Scheme; Section III: Turbine Performance; Required Reservoir Levels for Maximum Flood Discharges; Discussion of ‘Report on Economic Utilization of Energy available from the Aswan Dam and Nile Barrages Hydro-Electric Schemes’; Channel Alignment Study; Cost Estimate Tabulations including Rock excavation diagram and Estimates; Bills of Material for Machinery; Electrical One - Line Diagram; Tailrace Curve at Various Discharges; Aswan Reservoir Levels and Storage at the Period of Final Emptying, for the years 1933 to 1946; Sectional View and Plan of Proposed Powerhouse; Statistics of actual maximum Water Levels Downstream from Dam; Section V, Photographic Views of Similar Equipment Built By - The Westinghouse Electric Company and the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

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