Since it’s beginnings in 1919 in a red brick cubicle perched atop a concrete water channel on the Iowa River,
The University of Iowa’s hydraulics laboratory has claimed fame as a relatively small laboratory that has had a large impact on the way the world uses water.
The lab’s home base, a building originally called the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, was renovated in 2001 and in 2003 renamed the C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory. The lab is the oldest university-based hydraulics laboratory in the United States that continously has focused on research, education, and service in hydraulic engineering.
This month, the American Society of Civil Engineers will designate the building a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
The photograph above is from 1933. Photo from the F.W. Kent Collection of Photographs, University Archives. |
