Colorado Agricultural College. Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering.
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Irrigation Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: WIRP
Abstract
In 1911, the Irrigation Investigations Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was established in Fort Collins in conjunction with Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University). Scientists within the unit, including Ralph Parshall, Carl Rohwer, Victor M. Cone, and William E. Code, conducted irrigation-related research. They studied and designed apparatuses to measure water flow through canals and diversion structures, investigated various irrigation projects, and conducted...
Dates:
1890-1985; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Papers of Louis G. Carpenter
Collection
Identifier: WLGC
Abstract
Louis G. Carpenter (1861-1935), irrigation engineer, was appointed professor and head of engineering and physics at the Colorado Agricultural College in 1888. He became director of the Colorado Experiment Station at that institution in 1899 and remained at the college until 1911. Carpenter initiated the first systematic instruction in irrigation engineering, consulted widely on irrigation and hydraulic construction projects, and was also consulted for his expertise in water law. The...
Dates:
1888-1919; Majority of material found within 1898-1910
Filtered By
- Subject: Irrigation water. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Arkansas River Watershed. 1
- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) 1
- Education, Higher -- Colorado -- Fort Collins. 1
- Flumes. 1
- Groundwater. 1
- Irrigation engineering -- Colorado. 1
- Irrigation engineering. 1
- Irrigation pumps. 1
- Irrigation water -- Colorado -- Return flow. 1
- Irrigation water. 1
- Lantern slides. 1
- Maps. 1
- Meteorology -- Observations -- Colorado. 1
- Negatives. 1
- Parshall flumes. 1
- Photographs. 1
- Precipitation (Meteorology) -- Colorado -- Measurement. 1
- San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.) 1
- Snow surveys. 1
- South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.) 1
- Stream measurements -- Colorado. 1
- Water current meters. 1
- Weirs. 1
- Wells. 1 + ∧ less
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