Author: Clifford Foust
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253010691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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.
John Frank Stevens
Author: Clifford Foust
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253010691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253010691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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.
John Frank Stevens
Author: Odin A. Baugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
John Frank Stevens, 1853-1943
Author: Miles Percy DuVal (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Presentation of the John Fritz Gold Medal to John Frank Stevens
Author: John Fritz Medal Board
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
John Frank Stevens, Third Hoover Medalist
Author: Hoover Medal Board of Award
Publisher:
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
An Engineer's Recollections
Author: John Frank Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Construction of the Panama Canal
Author: William Luther Sibert
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Prologue
A Sketch of the Panama Canal
Author: John Frank Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description