Constructing the Assiut Barrage
Foundations and masonry in the process of construction during the building of the Assiut or Asyut Barrage on the River Nile in Egypt, about 350 miles downstream of the original Aswan Dam. The Assiut Barrage was designed by British engineer Sir William Willcocks to divert water into Egypt's largest irrigation canal, the Ibrahimiya Canal
Picture No
10290384
Media ID
45527309
Size
4544px x 3528px
(2.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/Ins. of Civil Engineers
Source
Photograph by D.S. George from The Nile Reservoir Works at Aswan and Asyut' 1902. Institution of Civil Engineers
Date
1902
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