By Clifford Foust
ISBN-10: 0253010616
ISBN-13: 9780253010612
One of America's preferable civil engineers of the prior one hundred fifty years, John Frank Stevens used to be a railway reconnaissance and placement engineer whose attractiveness used to be made at the Canadian Pacific and nice Northern strains. Self-taught and pushed by means of a bulldog tenacity of goal, he was once employed by way of Theodore Roosevelt as leader engineer of the Panama Canal, making a technical fulfillment a ways prior to its time. Stevens additionally served for greater than 5 years because the head of the U.S. Advisory fee of Railway specialists to Russia and as a expert who contributed to many engineering feats, together with the regulate of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and development of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens’s surviving own papers and fabrics from initiatives with which he used to be linked, Clifford Foust bargains an illuminating check out the lifetime of an complete civil engineer.
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