BUILDING A MODEL HARBOUR. — The tides, currents, and monsoons of a comer of the Indian Ocean are being manufactured to scale in the basemcht of University College, London, where engineers are attempting to prophesy the amount of silt that will eventually block the port of Rangoon, at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River. The engineers hope, by means of the experiment, to evolve a means of stopping the silting.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1933, Page 5
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69BUILDING A MODEL HARBOUR.—The tides, currents, and monsoons of a comer of the Indian Ocean are being manufactured to scale in the basemcht of University College, London, where engineers are attempting to prophesy the amount of silt that will eventually block the port of Rangoon, at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River. The engineers hope, by means of the experiment, to evolve a means of stopping the silting. Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1933, Page 5
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