check with resource request project . there might be someone who has access to them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Resource_request On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > A few of the interesting articles written about the Dam were by Major > (later Colonel) John Pennycuick, considered the "Chief Engineer" of the > Dam. He wrote about his for the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1897. The > edition can be found here.[1] The edition contains chapters on the > "Diversion of the Periyar" and "The Periyar Tunnel" followed by discussion > and correspondences on the same. I really wish we did more stuff like this > in 2011, but that is a different discussion. > > Interestingly, these articles - dated to 1897 (!!!) are pay-walled. Each > of the article I mentioned above costs GBP 18! > > Help is needed on trying to get these articles so that they can inform the > Wikipedia article now under Collaboration of the Month. I am hoping to > write to the UK Wikimedia Chapter and the Institution of Civil Engineers, > UK to see if copies of these can be obtained. Does anyone on-list see any > possibility of getting a copy otherwise? > > warm regards, > User:Prad2609 > > [1] - http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/issue/imotp/128/1897 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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