Research Catalog

Title

Engineering legends : great American civil engineers : 32 profiles of inspiration and achievement / Richard G. Weingardt.

Author

Weingardt, Richard.

Publication

Reston, Va. : American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005.

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Details

Description

xxv, 165 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

Great American civil engineers, 32 profiles of inspiration and achievement

Subject

Civil engineers > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-153) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword by Henry Petroski -- Empire makers -- Benjamin Wright -- Stephen H. Long -- Theodore D. Judah -- William L. Jenney -- Environmental experts -- Ellen Swallow Richards -- Holly A. Cornell -- William W. Moore -- Fu Hua Chen -- Transportation trendsetters -- Octave Chanute -- John E. Greiner -- Clifford Holland -- Roy Peratrovich, Jr. -- Builders of bridges -- Emily Warren Roebling -- Ralph Modjeski -- John A. L. Waddell -- David B. Steinman -- Structural trailblazers -- Fazlur R. Khan -- Fred N. Severud -- Willard E. Simpson -- Tung-Yen Lin -- Daring innovators -- George W. Ferris -- Jack R. Janney -- Henry J. Degenkolb -- Srinivasa Iyengar -- Movers and shakers -- Kate Gleason -- Bucky Fuller -- George D. Clyde -- Albert A. Dorman -- Educators extraordinaire -- Hardy Cross -- Mario G. Salvadori -- Nathan Newmark -- Roland C. Rautenstraus -- Tomorrow's legends.

ISBN

0784408017

LCCN

^^2005014120

OCLC

• 60419905
• SCSB-11680217

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library