Book ID: CBB366312234

John Frank Stevens: Civil Engineer (2013)

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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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Review Keith L., Jr. Bryant (Spring/Summer 2014) Review of "John Frank Stevens: Civil Engineer". Railroad History (pp. 110-111). unapi

Review Albert J. Churella (June 2015) Review of "John Frank Stevens: Civil Engineer". The Journal of Transport History (pp. 129-131). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Richard Haw
Hill-Saya, Blake
Logel, Jon Scott
Lunde, Darrin
Denton, Sally
Marixa Lasso
Concepts
Biographies
Civil engineering
Conservation movement
Engineers
Science and culture
Business and commerce
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
20th century
Places
United States
Panama
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Russia
Europe
North Carolina (U.S.)
Institutions
Bechtel Group
United States. Food and Drug Administration
United States Military Academy
Ford Motor Company
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