EFFORT TO ESTABLISH HYDRAULICS LABORATORY PROVED SUCCESSFUL

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | January 7, 2007 | Copyright

The Army Engineer Research and Development Center issued the following news release:

Did you know . . . that the Corps of Engineers fought against the establishment of a national hydraulics laboratory?

Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, the chief of engineers, established the WES June 18, 1929. This action formalized the Corps of Engineers research and development program. The action was also a remarkable "about face" by an agency that had been unreceptive to the concept of hydraulics modeling just a few years earlier.

During the early 1920s, John R. Freeman, a prominent civil engineer apresident of ...

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