John Frank Stevens
Title | John Frank Stevens PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford Foust |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2013-10-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0253010691 |
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
Title | John Frank Stevens PDF eBook |
Author | Odin A. Baugh |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
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John Frank Stevens, 1853-1943
Title | John Frank Stevens, 1853-1943 PDF eBook |
Author | Miles Percy DuVal (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Engineers |
ISBN |
Presentation of the John Fritz Gold Medal to John Frank Stevens
Title | Presentation of the John Fritz Gold Medal to John Frank Stevens PDF eBook |
Author | John Fritz Medal Board |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | |
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John Frank Stevens, Third Hoover Medalist
Title | John Frank Stevens, Third Hoover Medalist PDF eBook |
Author | Hoover Medal Board of Award |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Engineers |
ISBN |
An Engineer's Recollections
Title | An Engineer's Recollections PDF eBook |
Author | John Frank Stevens |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Canals |
ISBN |
The Construction of the Panama Canal
Title | The Construction of the Panama Canal PDF eBook |
Author | William Luther Sibert |
Publisher | New York : D. Appleton |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Canals |
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