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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Late Ottoman to Modern, British colonial · British-Egyptian Irrigation Service under Willcocks
1898-1902 British gravity dam (1950 m, 54 m) at First Cataract, culmination of 4600-year Nile hydraulic tradition from Sadd el-Kafara.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
British colonial (Anglo-Egyptian) · Anglo-Egyptian, French engineers
1902 610-m gravity masonry 180-sluice Low Dam north spur 6 km above High Dam, world's largest masonry then.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
New Kingdom to British (1470 BCE – 1902 CE) · Egyptian New Kingdom with British Aswan regulation
Quarry slipway and basin 150 m to float 42 m Unfinished Obelisk and blocks to Nile.
