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Foust, Clifford

 
9780253010612: John Frank Stevens: Civil Engineer
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ISBN 10 : 0253010616 ISBN 13 : 9780253010612
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2013

Synopsis

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens's surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer.

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À propos de l'auteur

Clifford Foust is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Maryland.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253010616
ISBN 13 
9780253010612
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
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