Louis W. Potts (Author)
Hauck, George F. W. (Author)
In 1867 the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad sent young Octave Chanute to erect the first span across the turbulent Missouri River. The site selected was the frontier community of Kansas City. Chanute, later assisted by neophyte George Morison, had to adapt to conditions. They chose a caisson design first used at Kehl. Their adaptations included relocating pier sites due to scour as well as patenting an endless dredge system. For the superstructure, Chanute and assistant Joseph Tomlinson devised a hybrid. The fixed spans were double triangular trellis, while the pivot span was identical to the contemporary CBQ bridge across the Mississippi at Quincy. The bridge proved integral to the economic boom for the region and helped both Chanute and Morison establish eminent careers.
...More
Article
Victor C. Darnell;
(1988)
The Haupt Iron Bridge on the Pennsylvania Railroad
(/isis/citation/CBB036533852/)
Article
Emory L. Kemp;
(1993)
The Introduction of Cast and Wrought Iron in Bridge Building
(/isis/citation/CBB212245887/)
Article
Emory L. Kemp;
Richard K. Anderson;
(1987)
The Reading-Halls Station Bridge
(/isis/citation/CBB743368918/)
Article
Gray Fitzsimons;
(1996)
Uncivil Engineers: The Struggle for Control of Seattle's Early Water and Electric Utilities, 1890-1910
(/isis/citation/CBB205294026/)
Article
Michael Mende;
(1997)
Biographical Note: Johann Wilhelm Schwedler (1823-94)
(/isis/citation/CBB024389533/)
Article
Larry D. Lankton;
(1978)
Valley Crossings on the Old Croton Aqueduct
(/isis/citation/CBB935781340/)
Article
Victor C. Darnell;
(1989)
The Other Literature of Bridge Building
(/isis/citation/CBB276350033/)
Article
Emory L. Kemp;
Jet Lowe;
(1989)
The Fabric of Historic Bridges
(/isis/citation/CBB566177796/)
Article
Frances C. Robb;
(1993)
Cast Aside: The First Cast-Iron Bridge in the United States
(/isis/citation/CBB626251034/)
Article
Robert W. Jackson;
(2005)
Extant Approach Spans of the Dunleith and Dubuque Bridge
(/isis/citation/CBB281968075/)
Article
Robert W. Passfield;
(1997)
The Turcot Riveted Arch-Truss Bridge: "As rigid and unyielding as a stone arch"
(/isis/citation/CBB671689183/)
Article
Eric DeLony;
(1993)
Surviving Cast- and Wrought-Iron Bridges in America
(/isis/citation/CBB483397256/)
Article
Soppelsa, Peter;
(2011)
Visualizing Viaducts in 1880s Paris
(/isis/citation/CBB001210213/)
Article
John K. Brown;
(1999)
When Machines Became Gray and Drawings Black and White: William Sellers and the Rationalization of Mechanical Engineering
(/isis/citation/CBB182481800/)
Article
Richard Greenwood;
(1998)
A Mechanic in the Garden: Landscape Design in Industrial Rhode Island
(/isis/citation/CBB582776918/)
Article
Hayward, Alan C. G.;
(2014)
The Construction of Railway Bridges Then and Now
(/isis/citation/CBB001201527/)
Book
Simine Short;
(2011)
Locomotive to aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the transportation revolution
(/isis/citation/CBB810764411/)
Article
Catherine Bishir;
(1979)
Location Book of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
(/isis/citation/CBB794891682/)
Article
Steven A. Walton;
(1995)
Canadian Aesthetics of Early Reinforced-Concrete Bridges
(/isis/citation/CBB392740883/)
Article
Fredric L. Quivik;
(1984)
Montana's Minneapolis Bridge Builders
(/isis/citation/CBB806731298/)
Be the first to comment!