The Nile in 1904
A hydrological study of the River Nile published in London and New York by E. & F.N. Spon in 1904, written by the engineer Sir William Willcocks for an audience of engineers and surveyors. Its pictures are technical plates: a longitudinal section of the river's fall, geological profiles of rock layers such as Nubian sandstone and granite, and route maps of the White and Albert Nile with surveyed positions marked along the course; a designer could take from them the clean line-and-hatching vocabulary of nineteenth-century engineering drawings.
