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William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to ...
Hired in 1878 as a zanjero (ditch tender), William Mulholland proved to be a brilliant employee who, after doing his day's work, would study textbooks on mathematics, hydraulics and geology, thereby teaching himself geology and engineering. Mulholland quickly moved up the ranks of the Water Company and was promoted to superintendent in 1886. [8]
William Mulholland with a surveyor's transit, ca.1908–1913 From 1907 through 1913, Mulholland directed the building of the aqueduct. [ 11 ] The 233-mile (375 km) Los Angeles Aqueduct , inaugurated in November 1913, required more than 2,000 workers and the digging of 164 tunnels.
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The resulting investigation and trial led to the retirement of William Mulholland as the head of the Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply in 1929. The dam failure is the worst man-made flood disaster in the US in the 20th century and the second largest single-event loss of life in California history after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Fred Eaton taught himself engineering and was the superintendent of the Los Angeles City Water Company by age 19 in 1875. As head of the Water Company, in 1878 Eaton first hired William Mulholland as a ditch-digger for distribution canals from the Los Angeles River to the city.
Kiko Mizuhara and Hona Ikoka star in Ride or Die, a Japanese psychological thriller that follows the love story between two women who commit *gasp!* murder. The film is chock full of tenderness ...
On the morning of Aug. 31, 1997, Princes William and Harry woke up to the worst news of their lives. Their mother, Princess Diana, had been in an accident in Paris, and she did not survive the crash.